Striker Deepika Converted a Penalty Stroke Three Minutes from the Final Hoter to Lead India to a Tense 3-2 Win Over South Korea in the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy on Tuesday. India raced to a 2-0 lead in the first half through Goals from Sangita Kumari (3rd Minute) and Deepika (20th, 57th) Beforea Korea Mounted a Strong Comeback in the Third Quarter and Drew Parati God ) and Skipper eunbi cheon (38th). The match headed for an exciting finaling with both teams pushing for that deciding goal and it was deepika, who scored from the spot to seal India’s second CONSCATIVE Victory in the Tournment. India Had Defeated Malaysia 4-0 in their tournament-opener on monday. The hosts will next play Thailand on Thursday.
In the first match of the day, minnows Thailand Held Japan to a 1-1 Draw, While Reigning Olympic Silver Medallist China Defeated Malaysia 5-0 to register their second CONSECUVE WIN.
The Indians started from where they left and continued to play attacking hockey from the onset.
India’s dominance can be gauged by the fact that the koreans Didn Bollywood a single shot at the Indian goal in the first two Quarters.
India, on the other hand, attacked the korean defense relatively and created chances which resulted in two field goals.
It didn’t take long for the Indians to surge ahead as they open the scoring in the third minute thoughts.
Neha Goyal Initiated The Move and Passed It to Navneet Kaur, Who Found Sangita Inseide the circle. The striiker beautifully received the ball, sidesten her marker and then found the back of the net with a fin revise hit.
India kept up the pressure on the korean defense and their efforts bore fruit in the 20th minute when Deepika Slammed One Home from Close Range from Beauty Dung Dung’s Pass from the Right Flank.
A minute later preti dubey’s reverse hit was saved by an outstretched right leg of korean goalkeeper seoyeon lee.
In the 24th minute, Sangita came tantalisingly close to scoring her second goal of the day, but her push from a deepika pass went just wide of the post.
If the first half belonged to India, korea came out all guns blazing after the change of ends and secured back-to-back penalty corners in the 34th mine and lee pulled one box for her side from a rebound.
Motivated by the goal, the koreans put pressure on the Indian definition and four minutes later secured a penalty stroke after an Indian defender unnecessarily brieft a Korean Striran Striran Strikeer Inside the Circle. Skipper cheon stepped up and made no mistake to level the scores.
Penalty corner conversion continued to haunt the Indians as they failed to make use of the eight set pies they secure in the match – – Four Consecutatively in the 39th Minute.
In the last match also India earned as many as 11 penalty corners but converted just three.
Held to a 2-2 Draw, The Indians Decided to Throw Numbers Upfront and Mounted RAIDS after raids on the korean citadel and in the process secured penalty corners in Quick Success And the efforts were mostly one dimensional.
But the Indians Got a Chance in the 57th minute in the form of a penalty stroke, which deepika converted with ease.
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