Asian Champions Trophy / Indian hockey team shines, rained goals - beat China 7-2

Asian Champions Trophy: The Indian hockey team has made a grand debut in the Asian Champions Trophy being played at home. India has given a crushing defeat to China in the first match of this trophy. India beat China 7-2 in the match played at Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium. Captain Harmanpreet Singh and Varun Kumar scored two goals each for India. Apart from these two, Sukhjit Singh, Akashdeep Singh and Mandeep Singh scored one goal each. The Chinese team looked very weak in front of India in this whole match. Neither its defense nor its attacking line did any special work for the team.

The Chinese team could not do anything special in front of India's strong attack. Her defense proved to be weak and she continued to concede goals. Wenhui He and Jisheng Gao scored two goals for China. Although India ate these two goals due to their carelessness.

Attack from the beginning

Team India's attack was excellent in this match. The team also converted penalty corners and its open play was excellent. Team India shot at China's goalpost almost every second minute in this match. India got nine penalty corners in this match, out of which it was able to convert five into goals. Team captain Harmanpreet scored two consecutive goals in the fifth and eighth minutes to put China under pressure and put India ahead. The captain scored both these goals on the penalty corner.

India got a third penalty corner in the 15th minute, which the captain missed but Sukhjit Singh converted the opportunity and put the ball into the net. A minute later, Akashdeep put the ball in the goal post with his brilliant shot. Forwarded. India was ahead 4-0 here. He made a mistake right here and got the goal. Here Varun failed to control the ball and Wenhui took advantage of it and scored. Varun equalized it by scoring a goal in the 19th minute. This goal also happened on the penalty corner.

Sustained attacks

The Indian team was ahead 5-1 and was continuously attacking. In the second quarter, this team scored another goal. Jarmanpreet Singh got a yellow card in the second quarter and had to go out for 10 minutes. China took advantage of this and scored a goal in the 25th minute. It did not affect India. He scored another goal at the end of the second quarter and this time Varun's name appeared on the scoresheet. This goal also happened on the penalty corner.

After the end of the first half, the Indian team was ahead 6-2. China somehow kept India from scoring in the third quarter but Mandeep Singh scored the seventh goal for India in the 40th minute with a field goal. India ended the third quarter with a scoreline of 7-2. Both the teams could not score in the fourth quarter and India won.