India vs Ireland Hockey Match: The Indian men’s hockey team has performed brilliantly and won its third match in the group stage. He gave a crushing defeat to Ireland 2-0. Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored both the goals in this match. Now the next match of Indian team in Pool-B will be against Belgium on 1st August. Earlier, the Indian team had defeated New Zealand 3-2. Whereas there was a 1-1 draw with Argentina. Now
Apart from captain Harmanpreet, goalkeeper PR Sreejesh also performed brilliantly in the match. The Indian team, which made many mistakes in the first two matches, maintained complete pressure on Ireland till halftime in the third match of Pool B on Tuesday. Captain Harmanpreet Singh scored the first goal on a penalty stroke in the 11th minute and the second goal on a penalty corner in the 19th minute.
In the 3-2 win over New Zealand in the first match, Harmanpreet scored the winning goal on a penalty stroke in the 59th minute. At the same time, on Monday, against Rio Olympic champion Argentina, he saved India from defeat by converting a penalty corner in the 59th minute and drew the match 1-1.
India took the lead for the first time by scoring a goal in the first quarter
Experienced midfielders Manpreet Singh and Hardik Singh, who performed average in the last match, played excellently today and made many good moves. For the first time, India took the lead by scoring a goal in the first quarter, whereas in the last two matches the first goal was scored by the opposing team.
Despite this victory, India’s weakness of missing penalty corners was again exposed in the third quarter. The Indian team, which had missed 13 penalty corners in the first two matches, did not miss a single penalty corner till halftime, but missed 8 penalty corners in the third quarter which kept goalkeeper Sreejesh busy.
Ireland got 10 and India got 9 penalty corners and one stroke in this match. In the next two matches, India has to play against the current champions Belgium and great teams like Australia and before that, coach Fulton will have to tighten this weak link. Fulton, who joined the Indian team last year, is the former coach of the Ireland team.
Apart from this, the Indian team also could not score any goal after the 19th minute. Not being able to score penalty corners and field goals may cost you in tough matches ahead.
The team got a penalty corner in the very second minute.
The Indian team started aggressively and got a penalty corner in the second minute, although Harmanpreet could not convert it into a goal. In the first quarter itself, in the 11th minute, India got a penalty stroke, which Harmanpreet made no mistake in converting into a goal. In the first quarter, the Irish team failed to attack the Indian goal.
In the second minute of the second quarter, India came close to doubling the lead when Lalit Upadhyay took the ball from the right side, but due to his wrong position in front of the goal, the shot hit the bar.
India got three consecutive penalty corners in the next minute and the fourth one was converted by Harmanpreet, which was her fourth goal in this Olympics. Four minutes before halftime, the Indian team again came close to scoring, but the forward line could not keep pace and the chance was missed.
After the break, the Irish team started aggressively and continuously entered the Indian circle in the third quarter. India’s weakness in missing the penalty corner could have once again proved costly if goalkeeper Sreejesh had not been alert. Ireland got eight penalty corners in the third quarter, but were unsuccessful.