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India males’s hockey workforce finishes ninth in FIH World Cup (Twitter/@TheHockeyIndia)
With round 60 per cent ball possession, the house facet had 14 pictures at purpose as towards 9 by South Africa.
A dominant India scored twice within the first and fourth quarters to beat South Africa 5-2 in a classification match and end joint ninth within the FIH Males’s World Cup right here on Saturday.
World quantity six India earned six penalty corners within the match and scored one from them whereas South Africa, ranked 14th, obtained three PCs with out changing any one in every of them. India had 31 circle penetrations in whole whereas South Africa had 22.
With round 60 per cent ball possession, the house facet had 14 pictures at purpose as towards 9 by South Africa.
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Abhishek, who was named participant of the match, opened the scoring for India within the fifth minute earlier than captain Harmanpreet Singh struck from his drag flick within the twelfth minute.
The second quarter didn’t yield any purpose from both facet although India saved on attacking and made a number of circle penetration.
India, who led 2-0 at half time, had 15 circle penetration as towards eight by South Africa on the breather.
Within the third quarter, Amit Rohidas was proven a yellow card and India needed to play one man brief for 5 minutes.
However as soon as Rohidas got here again, India scored a purpose within the final minute of the third quarter by Shamsher Singh (forty fifth).
The South Africans did higher within the second half as they made extra circle penetration than the primary half-hour.
The fourth quarter produced 4 objectives — two from both sides.
India’s fourth purpose got here within the forty ninth minute from a high quality workforce effort. Off a Raj Kumar Pal move, Jarmanpreet Singh despatched a low cross from close to the best facet which Akashdeep merely tapped in.
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However just some seconds later, South Africa scored their first purpose of the match by Mvimbi Samkelo (forty ninth), who managed a protracted scoop from a teammate contained in the Indian ‘D’ after which fired a strong shot previous India custodian PR Sreejesh.
Sukhjeet was suspended for 5 minutes within the fiftieth minute after getting a yellow card for a foul and India had been one man down. However South Africa did not capitalise on this.
Sukhjeet returned to attain India’s fifth purpose within the 58th minute. Akashdeep was concerned within the purpose as his reverse shot rebounded from the South Africa goalkeeper and Sukhjeet was on the proper place to slam the ball house.
South Africa earned a penalty stroke with only one minute left within the match after Sreejesh fouled Cassiem Mustaphaa within the Indian circle. Mustaphaa himself stepped up and scored from the spot because the Birsa Munda Stadium noticed India win for the ultimate time on this World Cup.
“Now we have not thought that we are going to end like this (at joint ninth). However we have now not misplaced a single match on this World Cup (misplaced to New Zealand in a penalty shootout after a 3-3 draw). Apart from the third and fourth quarters (when India conceded a purpose every) towards New Zealand, we have now performed nicely,” captain Harmanpreet Singh mentioned.
“We may have executed higher in these two quarters towards New Zealand. We created quite a lot of alternatives (to attain) and we additionally defended nicely.” Harmanpreet mentioned it was a “good studying” for him.
“I’ll preserve extra focus and enhance in future. No matter weak point we have now came upon on this event we’ll attempt to repair earlier than the subsequent main event. There might be relaxation for 9-12 days after which we have now to be on the nationwide camp.” Within the earlier matches of the day, Argentina thrashed Wales 6-0 to share the ninth spot with India, whereas Malaysia beat Japan 3-2 to finish their marketing campaign at joint thirteenth together with France, who emerged 4-2 winners over Chile.
Wales and South Africa completed at joint eleventh whereas Japan and Chile took the joint final (joint fifteenth) place.
India had completed ninth in 1998 and 2014 additionally. They’d completed tenth in 1990 and 2002, eleventh in 2006 and twelfth in 1986.
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