India suffered their second successive loss within the European leg of the FIH Men’s Hockey Pro League towards Great Britain. They suffered a loss by 2-4 on Saturday. India had misplaced to Olympic champions Belgium 1-2 on Friday.
While Timothy Nurse struck the primary discipline purpose for Great Britain within the sixth minute, Harmanpreet Singh leveled the rating from a penalty nook within the thirteenth minute. Sorsby Thomas scored Britain’s second within the thirty first minute, and the group regained the lead. His purpose was adopted by Lee Morton’s purpose within the thirty third minute.
Harmanpreet scored his second purpose for India, once more from a penalty nook which got here within the forty second minute. With the purpose, he turned the all-time top-scorer within the Pro League with a complete of 35 objectives. Bandurak Nicholas regained England’s two-goal lead together with his 53rd-minute strike on the Lee Valley Hockey Centre, and India couldn’t put up a struggle from there.
Nurse opened the account as dribbled his well past Lalit Kumar Upadhyay and Mandeep Mor down the left to enter the Indian ‘D’ earlier than taking pictures the ball previous keeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak, who began at purpose forward of the seasoned PR Sreejesh.
Before the hosts took the lead, Brendan Creed’s move discovered an unmarked Sam Ward, however the latter’s try was thwarted by a superb Pathak on the Indian purpose.
A number of moments later, Ward was once more within the thick of issues however Pathak made a well timed intervention by kicking the ball away to security.
Then, the duo of Jarmanpreet Singh and Karthi initiated the primary actual attacking transfer by the Indian group, shocking the English goalkeeper and practically scoring the equalizer.
The Indians discovered the equalizer when Harmanpreet Singh hit the again of the web off a penalty nook within the thirteenth minute.
Their morale boosted by the equalizer, the guests appeared to dominate the Britons and known as the pictures within the second quarter when an Indian purpose was additionally disallowed following a evaluation after the English opted for a video referral.
Meanwhile, Wallace Zachary’s penalty stroke was saved by a diving Sreejesh to hold the match within the steadiness.
However, the hosts regained the lead when Sorsby transformed a penalty nook within the third quarter. Morton Lee made it 3-1 for England with the house group’s second strike – a discipline purpose – within the third quarter.
