India beat Poland 8-2 of their third conflict of junior males’s hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar.
Sanjay started off the goal-scoring spree for India, placing the major goal of the game, his seventh in the tournament. Hundal Araijeet Singh opened his myth as wisely in the major quarter, converting a penalty corner. Sudeep struck twice in the game to reinforce the lead.
Within the fourth quarter, Poland treid their most appealing to make a comeback as they struck two goals. Wojciech Rutkowski and Robert Pawlak hit the two goals for Poland in the demise minutes of the match. On the opposite hand, Sanjay and Hundal scored two more to invent the game 8-2.
India will now beat Belgium in quarter-finals.
After scoring hat-tricks in the major two video games, vice captain Sanjay (4th, 58th) continued his goal-scoring spree for India whereas Hundal (eighth, 60th), who scored a hat-trick against Canada, too registered his title on the scoresheet.
Chirmako (24th, 40th) moreover contributed in crew’s employ whereas Uttam Singh (34th) and Shardanand Tiwari (38th) were the a range of goal scorers for the hosts in the Pool B game.
Poland scored every their goals in the fourth and final quarter thru Wojciech Rutkowski (50th) and Robert Pawlak (54th).
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India will now face closing edition’s runners-up Belgium in the quarterfinal on December 1.
Belgium topped Pool A earlier than Malaysia on goal dissimilarity after every the accomplished on seven facets every.
After a shock 4-5 defeat against France of their tournament opener, India thrashed Canada 13-1 of their second pool match to attach alive in the competition.
Up against Poland in a ought to-employ final pool match, the Indians started from the put they left against Canada on Thursday and keep stress on the Polish goal from the onset.
Their efforts bore fruit as early as in the fourth minute of the match when indispensable person dragflicker Sanjay scored his seventh goal of the tournament, once more from a penalty corner.
The Indians stayed aggressive and four minutes later doubled their lead thru one other penalty corner, this time from the stick of Hundal.
Sudeep trippled India’s lead in the 24th minute thru a shapely field goal to enter the half of time leading 3-0.
Four minutes into the third quarter, Uttam prolonged India’s lead with one other field strike forward of Tiwari converted a penalty corner in the 38th minute to make it 5-0 in India’s favour.
Sudeep all once more discovered himself in thick of things, scoring one other field goal in the 40th minute.
Trailing 0-6, Poland came all out attacking in the final quarter. They earned a barrage of penalty corners and in the job discovered the earn twice to diminish the margin.
However India accomplished on a sturdy expose when Sanjay and Hundal scored from field play to register an emphatic employ for the hosts.
Meanwhile in a range of fits of the day, Pakistan beat Egypt 3-1 in Pool D whereas France topped Pool A with an all-employ chronicle spanking Canada 11-1.
Malaysia beat South Africa 4-3 to qualify for the quarterfinals as the second-most appealing crew from Pool A, whereas Belgium topped the pool after beating Chile 3-0.
With PTI inputs
