Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Hockey News

At Hero Men's Hockey Champions Trophy 2014, Bhubaneswar, India

Group B
India bt Netherlands 3-2 (0-0)
Goal Scorers - SV Sunil (IND) 33', Manpreet Singh (IND) 47', Rupinder Singh (IND) 49' PC and Mink van der Weerden (NED) 36' PC and 58' PC

Argentina bt Germany 3-0 (2-0)

Indians play spirited game against Netherlands and score their rare win over them in many years ... In the first half both teams matched each other's game as both team had equal chances ... In the second half we started with beautiful deflection goal by Sunil but Weerden equalized converting third penalty corner ... Indians taken control of the match when they scored back to back score in three minutes of fourth quarter ... In that excellent goals by Manpreet on rebound and excellently executing penalty corner his by Rupinder Pal Singh ... After that Dutch side tried hard and Weerden again converted fourth penalty corner when 2 minutes were remaining ... After they failed to score ... Again in this match Sreejesh was excellent in front of the goal but defenders also gave him terrific support ... So with this win we finish on third position of the pool ahead of German side.

Thursday’s quarter final will see the Netherlands taking on Pakistan, England playing Germany, Argentina facing Australia and Belgium meeting India.

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