Sunday, April 12, 2015

Hockey News

At Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2015, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

For Bronze medal
India bt Korea 2-2 (2-2) 4-1 PS
Goal Scorers - Nikkin Thimmaiah (IND) 10', Satbir Singh (IND) 21' and Hyosik You (KOR) 19' PC, Hyunwoo Nam (KOR) 28' PC

Indians win Bronze medal beating Korea in penalty shoot-out ... Really happy to see nthat our players managed to keep focus after big win against Australia ... In this match also our players started on positive note and scored first goal through Nitin ... Koreans immediately responded through penalty corner in second quarter ... Again Indians scored through Satbir but this time also Koreans equalized through penalty corner ... After that both teams tried but failed to score ... Koreans kept extra pressure as they earned seven penalty corners and converted two ... Other hand we failed to earn single penalty corner ... In penalty shoot-out Sreejesh stood like wall ... Sreejesh saved 2nd and 3rd penalty to give Indians thumping 4-1 victory in penalty shoot-out as our players converted all four penalties ... Sreejesh deserving declared man of the match for this tie.

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