Asian Games 2023: Indian hockey team takes another step towards gold medal by defeating Japan 4-2

Hangzhou: Young Striker Coronation With the help of two goals, India registered its third consecutive win by defeating defending champions Japan 4-2 here on Thursday. With this, India took a strong step towards the semi-finals in the men’s hockey competition of the Asian Games. Abhishek (13th, 48th minute) scored two field goals. Other goals for India were scored by Mandeep Singh (24th) and Amit Rohidas (34th) did. Japan made a comeback in the last five minutes of the fourth and final quarter and reduced the margin of defeat with the help of goals from Genki Mitani (57th) and Ryoshi Kato (60th).

India will face Pakistan on Saturday

India will face arch-rival Pakistan in its next match of Pool A on Saturday. India, the third-ranked team in the world ranking, maintained dominance against Japan from the beginning and kept the ball under its control for most of the match. The Japanese team was able to perform well only in bits and pieces. The Indian team, which had won easily in the first two matches, made a great start and got its first penalty corner in the fifth minute itself but captain Harmanpreet Singh’s flick went out.

Abhishek scored two goals

India missed its first penalty corner of the tournament in the 12th minute, but Indian goalkeeper Krishna Bahadur Pathak saved Shota Yamada’s effort. After some time, India got the second penalty corner but could not take advantage of it either. But a minute later, Abhishek gave India the lead by scoring a goal on Hardik Singh’s pass. India then got another penalty corner but the Japanese players defended it well.

India misses on penalty corner

Shortly before the end of the first quarter, Lalit Upadhyay had a chance to score but his attempt was foiled by Japanese goalkeeper Takeshi Yoshikawa. India doubled its lead in the 24th minute when Mandeep scored from Neelkanth’s pass. India got its fourth penalty corner after the intermission but Sanjay’s flick was saved by the Japan goalkeeper. After this, India got two consecutive penalty corners, of which Rohidas converted the second one.

Japan scored two goals in the last quarter

In the third minute of the fourth and final quarter, India increased its lead to 4-0 when Abhishek scored his second goal with the assistance of Mandeep. However, the Japanese team did not accept defeat and reduced the margin of defeat by scoring two goals in the last five minutes. India hopes for a medal from its hockey team. This time India is considered a strong contender for the gold medal.

India’s medal winners in Asian Games on Thursday

1. Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Singh Cheema and Shiv Narwal – Men’s 10m Air Pistol Team Event – Gold.

2. Naorem Roshibina Devi – Women’s 60kg Wushu Sanda Event – Silver.

3. Anush Aggarwala – Equestrian Men’s Individual Dressage Event – Bronze

India’s match in Asian Games on Friday

India’s schedule for Friday in the Asian Games is as follows.

• Athletics: Vikas Singh and Sandeep Kumar – Men’s 20km (Medal event), Priyanka Goswami – Women’s 20km (Medal event), Himanshi Malik and Aishwarya Mishra – Women’s 400m (Heats), Mohammad Anas and Mohammad Ajmal – Men’s 400m (Heats). , Manpreet Kaur and Kiran Baliyan – Women’s Shot Put (Final), Tanya Choudhary and Rachna Kumari – Women’s Shot Put (Final).

• Badminton : India’s men’s and women’s teams (quarterfinals)

• Basketball: India vs China – Men (Pool Match), India vs Mongolia – Women (Pool Match).

• Boxing: Parveen vs Jichun Xu – Men’s 57kg (Pre-Quarters), Lakshya Chahar vs Omurbek Bekzhigit – Men’s 80kg (Pre-Quarters), Nikhat Zareen vs Hanan Nassar – Women’s 50kg (Quarterfinals),

• Bridge : India’s men’s, women’s and mixed teams (round-robin matches).

• chess : India men’s and women’s teams (Round 1).

• Cycling: David Beckham and Esso Alben – Men’s Keirin (First Round Heat and Final), Vishwajit Singh and Harshvir Sekhon – Men’s Madison (Final).

• eSports: India vs Kyrgyzstan – DOTA2 (Pool Match), India vs Philippines – DOTA2 (Pool Match).

• Golf : Pranavi Urs, Avani Prashant and Aditi Ashok – Women’s Individual & Team (Round 2), Anirban Lahiri, SSP Chaurasia, Khalin Joshi and Shubhankar Sharma – Men’s Team & Individual (Round 2).

• Handball: India vs China – Women (Pool Match).

• Hockey : India vs Malaysia – Women (Pool Match).

• Shooting : Swapnil Kusale, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar and Akhil Sheoran – Men’s 50m 3 Positions (Qualification and Team Final), Palak, Isha Singh and Divya TS – Women’s 10m Air Pistol (Qualification and Team Final),

• Squash: India’s men’s and women’s teams (semi-finals).

• swimming : Neena Venkatesh – Women’s 50m Butterfly (Heat 2 & Final), Vriti Agarwal – Women’s 800m (Slow Heat 2 & Final), Srihari Nataraj & Advait Page – Men’s 200m Backstroke (Heat & Final), Kushagra Rawat & Aryan Nehra – Men’s 400m Freestyle (Heats and Finals), Anish Gowda and Sajan Prakash – Men’s 200m Butterfly (Heats and Finals), India – Women’s 4x100m Relay (Heats and Finals).

• Table Tennis: Manika Batra vs Suthasini Sawetabat – Women’s Singles (Pre-Quarters), Manush Shah & Manav Thakkar vs Yew Pang & Izaak Pang – Men’s Doubles (Pre-Quarters), Sharath Kamal & G Sathiyan vs Fan Zhendong & Wang Chuqin – Men’s Doubles (Pre-Quarters) -Quarters), Srija Akula & Diya Chitale vs. Miwa Harimoto & Miyu Kihara – Women’s Doubles (Pre-Quarters), Sutirtha Mukherjee & Ayihika Mukherjee vs. Wanmisa Oueviriyayothin & Jinnipa Sawetabat – Women’s Doubles (Pre-Quarters), G Sathiyan vs Wang Chuqin – Men’s Singles (Pre-Quarters), Sharath Kamal vs Chih-Yuan Chuang – Men’s Singles (Pre-Quarters).

• Tennis : Ramkumar Ramanathan and Saketh Myneni – Men’s Doubles (Final), Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale – Mixed Doubles (Semi-Final).

Source link