Asian Champions Trophy Hockey: The defending champion Indian hockey team’s excellent performance continues in the Asian Champions Trophy being played in Moqi, China. On Thursday, the Indian team defeated South Korea 3-1 in its fourth round robin match. This was the Indian team’s fourth consecutive victory in this tournament. Now on September 14, Team India will face Pakistan. It is worth mentioning that India has already secured a ticket to the semi-finals by defeating Malaysia 8-1.
Against South Korea, India opened their account in the 8th minute with a goal by Arijeet Singh Hundal and then in the very next minute Harmanpreet Singh doubled the lead with a penalty corner. After this, Korea retaliated in the 30th minute and Yang scored a goal. By the first half, India was ahead 2-1. In the second half, Harmanpreet scored another goal and the score became 3-1. This difference remained till the end of the match and India won the match and achieved its fourth consecutive victory.
It is worth noting that before this, Team India had defeated host China 3-0 in its first match and Japan 5-1 in its second match. Whereas, in the third match, it had defeated Malaysia 8-1.
Malaysia beat Japan 5-4
Earlier, Malaysia won 5-4 against Japan on Thursday. Goals from Syed Cholan (12′, 40′), Norsyafik Sumantri (21′), Siyarman Mat (47′) and Kamal Abu Azraai (48′) helped Malaysia win and move to fourth place in the points table. Malaysia, which is at the bottom of the table after losing 1-8 to India in its previous match on Wednesday, needed to win at all costs to stay in the race to make it to the semi-finals.
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