Young striker Deepika slammed 5 objectives as defending champions India thrashed minnows Thailand 13-0 to just about guarantee a semifinal berth on the ladies’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey event on Thursday. It was a totally one-sided match because the Indians discovered the online at will, with Thailand failing to take a single shot on the opposition objective. Deepika (third, nineteenth, forty third forty fifth, forty fifth minutes) discovered the online 5 instances, whereas Preeti Dubey (ninth, fortieth), Lalremsiami (12, 56th) and Manisha Chauhan (fifty fifth, 58th) scored a brace every.
Beauty Dung Dung (thirtieth) and Navneet Kaur (53rd) had been the opposite objective getters for India who registered their third consecutive win within the round-robin league stage.
India had earlier defeated Malaysia 4-0 earlier than eking out an in depth 3-2 win over South Korea.
The Indians will subsequent play Olympic silver medallists China on Saturday.
India at the moment are within the second spot within the standings with 9 factors, the identical as China who, nevertheless, are on the highest on the premise of a greater objective distinction. China have a objective distinction of + 21 as towards +18 of India.
The high 4 groups out of six on the finish of round-robin league stage will qualify for the semifinals. It was full domination from India from begin to end as they constantly toyed with the Thai defence, which appeared clueless towards the house workforce’s relentless assaults.
The Indians additionally improved on the penalty nook entrance, changing 5 out of 12 PCs they secured within the match.
It took India simply three minutes to take the lead by means of a fantastic area objective by Deepika. She fantastically managed a defence spitting move from Neha and positioned herself completely to search out the again of the online with a reverse hit.
Minutes later, Manisha Chauhan bought a free shot contained in the circle however she could not join the ball correctly.
In the ninth minute, Preeti doubled India’s lead, tapping in Sangita Kumari’s move from shut vary.
Three minutes later, Lalremsiami scored from a rebound after skipper Salima Tete’s preliminary attempt was saved by Thai goalkeeper Siraya Yimkrajang.
India continued to mount raids and secured their first penalty nook within the seventeenth minute however the Thai custodian made a triple save.
In the nineteenth minute, Deepika scored her second objective of the day, once more with a fantastic shot from the highest of the circle.
The Indians then wasted three penalty corners earlier than scoring from the following set piece simply on the stroke of half-time by means of Beauty, who discovered the online from a goal-mouth melee because the hosts went into the breather with a cushty 5-0 lead.
An unmarked Preeti beat the onrushing Thai goalie neatly and located the online within the fortieth minute for her second objective of the match.
Minutes later, Deepika transformed a penalty nook with a flick to the highest proper nook of Thai objective.
Within a span of two minutes, Deepika scored two extra objectives — one from area play and the following from penalty nook — at hand India a complete 9-0 lead on the finish of the third quarter.
After resumption, Navneet scored with a reverse hit after receiving a move from Sushila Delvi.
Five minutes from the ultimate hooter, Manisha transformed India’s tenth penalty nook earlier than Lalremsiami deflected in Udita’s slap shot from one other set piece within the subsequent minute.
Manisha registered her identify once more within the scoresheet two minutes from full time from area play.
In different matches of the day, Malaysia beat Korea 2-1 whereas China continued their unbeaten run by defeating Japan by the identical margin.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
Topics talked about on this article
