At Hero Hockey World League Final 2014, New Delhi, India
For 5th-8th Positions
India bt Germany 5-4 (1-3)
Goal Scorers - Mandeep Singh (IND), 18' 41' and 53', Rupinder Pal Singh (IND) PC 39', PC 70' and Oliver Korn (GER) 4', Thilo Stralkowski (GER) PC 6', Benjamin Wess (GER) 27', Martin Häner (GER) PC 55'
Before this tournament and after first 2 matches I write off this Indian hockey team but after that they really surprised me with their performance ... First we were very near for famous victory over Germans in last pool match ... Then we had superb start against Aussies but after that we were typically melt down ... So in this positional match I wasn't expected any great performance by our team against Germans ... But our team surprised me against current Olympic champion Germany and scored rare fighting comeback win against full strength German team ... And book 5th place match against Belgium.
German started with dominating style and scored 2 goals in two minutes to take 2-0 lead after first 6 minutes ... Slowly Indians started to found their footing in the match ... On one such counter-attack Mandeep scored but Germans regained their 2 goals lead when Wess scored ... Then Germany missed a Penalty stroke but still they were leading 3-1 at half-time ... After half-time our team came out all cylinders firing ... Rupinder converted penalty corner in 39th minute and then Mandeep scored his 2nd goal of the match to equalized, 3-all ... After that Indians kept pushing and Mandeep completed hat-trick when he converted another chance and first time in the match Indians were leading, 4-3 ... But within 2 minutes Häner equalized for Germans through penalty corners, 4-all ... In last 15 minutes both teams were trying hard to gain upper-hand but failed to score ... Indians earned penalty corner in dying moments and Rupinder converted for giving Indian team and fans for memorable win ... After ages we manages to win against world's top-4 team ... Belgium defeated Argentina in penalty shoot-off, so we r facing them for fifth place.
For 5th-8th Positions
India bt Germany 5-4 (1-3)
Goal Scorers - Mandeep Singh (IND), 18' 41' and 53', Rupinder Pal Singh (IND) PC 39', PC 70' and Oliver Korn (GER) 4', Thilo Stralkowski (GER) PC 6', Benjamin Wess (GER) 27', Martin Häner (GER) PC 55'
Before this tournament and after first 2 matches I write off this Indian hockey team but after that they really surprised me with their performance ... First we were very near for famous victory over Germans in last pool match ... Then we had superb start against Aussies but after that we were typically melt down ... So in this positional match I wasn't expected any great performance by our team against Germans ... But our team surprised me against current Olympic champion Germany and scored rare fighting comeback win against full strength German team ... And book 5th place match against Belgium.
German started with dominating style and scored 2 goals in two minutes to take 2-0 lead after first 6 minutes ... Slowly Indians started to found their footing in the match ... On one such counter-attack Mandeep scored but Germans regained their 2 goals lead when Wess scored ... Then Germany missed a Penalty stroke but still they were leading 3-1 at half-time ... After half-time our team came out all cylinders firing ... Rupinder converted penalty corner in 39th minute and then Mandeep scored his 2nd goal of the match to equalized, 3-all ... After that Indians kept pushing and Mandeep completed hat-trick when he converted another chance and first time in the match Indians were leading, 4-3 ... But within 2 minutes Häner equalized for Germans through penalty corners, 4-all ... In last 15 minutes both teams were trying hard to gain upper-hand but failed to score ... Indians earned penalty corner in dying moments and Rupinder converted for giving Indian team and fans for memorable win ... After ages we manages to win against world's top-4 team ... Belgium defeated Argentina in penalty shoot-off, so we r facing them for fifth place.
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