Hockey World Cup, IND vs JAP: India defeated Japan 8-0 in the Hockey World Cup 2023. Mandeep Singh scored the first goal for the Indian team. Team India made a brisk start in the second half. The Indian team got a penalty corner just in the second minute of the second half. Mandeep Singh made no mistake on this penalty corner. After this, Abhishek scored the second goal for India. Abhishek scored a goal in the 35th minute of the match. In this way Team India went ahead 2-0.
Manpreet Singh scored 2 goals
At the same time, Manpreet Singh scored the third goal for India. Manpreet Singh scored a penalty in the 12th minute of the third quarter. However, Japanese players were injured on Manpreet Singh’s shot, but Team India managed to increase its lead to 3-0. However, in the 13th minute of the third quarter, India got another penalty corner, Abhishek injected, but the Indian players could not score. However, Abhishek made up for it immediately. Abhishek fielded in the 13th minute itself to put India ahead 4-0 in the match.
Match played in Rourkela
Let us tell that this match between India and Japan was played in Rourkela. In the first half, the Indian team made many attacks, many times there were chances to score, but there was no success in scoring. Actually, the goalkeeper of Japan defended many great goals.
The playing XI of the Indian team was as follows-
RP Sreejesh, Amit Rohidas, Harmanpreet Singh, Surendra Kumar, Varun Kumar, Manpreet Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Raj Kumar Pal, Shamsher Singh, Mandeep Singh, Sukhjit Singh
The playing XI of Japan was as follows-
Takashi Yoshikawa, Reiki Fujishima, Shota Yamada, Masaki Ohashi, Seiren Tanaka, Tiki Takade, Ken Nagayoshi, Kaito Tanaka, Koji Yamasaki, Takuma Niwa, Ryoma Ooka
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