Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Hockey News
At 2012 Olympic Qualification Tournament, New Delhi

Men
India bt France 6-2 (3-1)

Goal Scored - Shivendra Singh (IND) 4', Sandeep Singh (IND) 9' PC, 30' PS and 37' PC, SV Sunil (IND) 39', Tushar Khandekar (IND) 62' and Lucas Sevestre (FRA) 35' PC, Fabien Magner (FRA) 56' PC

Women
India bt Poland 3-0 (1-0)

Goal Scored - Ritu Rani (IND) 14', Rani Rampal (IND) 36' Poonam Rani (IND) 62'

Indian men showed some excellent stick-work in this match but I m feeling our team is facing the second half blues in this tournament ... In the second half we r trying to slow the pace, making few defensive errors and missing few chances in front of the goal ... Same repeated in today's match also ... Still much better outing for us than previous matches and importantly good preparation before tomorrow's important match against Canada.

Again Indians take early lead through field goal from Shivendra ... After that Sandeep converted his trade-mark penalty corner hit ... Indians missed few chances to extend the lead but they were playing very attacking game ... Indians awarded penalty stroke when French defender fouled SV Sunil inside the circle and Sandeep converted it easily ... Before half-time our players were looking relaxed and Frech side take advantage to earned penalty corner which they converted after the hooter ... Immediately after start of the second half Indians earned another penalty corner and Sandeep completed another hat-trick converting that ... In couple of minutes SV Sunil scored easiest filed goal after excellent pass from Shivendra ... After that we missed couple of penalty conrners and Dinesh missed few chances in front of goals ... In one of attack French side earned another penalty corner which they again converted due to poor defending by our goal-keeper Chetri ... 8 minutes before the final hooter Tushar found himself totally unmarked at top of the circle and scored goal on powerful shot ... So with 3 wins in 3 matches we r leading the group by 3 points from 2nd place teams; Canada, France and Poland.

Indian women scored comforable win over Polish women ... At half-time Indians were leading 1-0 after early field goal from Ritu Rani ... On 1st minute of the second half Rani Rampal scored excellent individual goal dribbling 3 defenders ... Both teams wasted penalty corners before Poonam scored another field goal ... After 3 matches India and South Africa r having 7 points but on better goal difference we r on the top position.

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