India was anticipated to romp house and the host duly obliged with a 7-1 win towards Thailand within the girls’s Asian Champions Trophy in entrance of a capability crowd on the first ever worldwide hockey motion right here on Friday.
Preceded by an prolonged fireworks show, the sport noticed the Indian girls placed on a present of their very own however identical to the fireworks, they took time to get going earlier than steamrollering the hapless Thai aspect.
India had the possession and started aggressively however stored taking pictures astray.
Monika and Salima Tete put the workforce forward regardless of all of the missed possibilities.
Thailand tried to maintain the Indians at bay nevertheless it was largely a misfiring Indian forwardline, failing to manage the ball or its photographs, that stored the rating to a very respectable 3-1 at half-time.
This was the first-ever aim scored by Thailand girls towards India. The third quarter noticed India lastly shake all of it off — the nerves, opposition and its personal disconnect — to take management and expose the distinction between the perimeters.
Deepika smashed in an overhead to make it 4-1 and two objectives inside a minute by Sangita in direction of the tip of the quarter sealed the consequence.
Lalremsiami, tireless by means of the sport along with her assists and fixed overlapping, added one in all her personal to spherical off the tally.
The solely concern, if any, for the workforce could be its continued poor penalty-corner conversion charge.
Earlier, Korea transformed its solely penalty-corner for an early lead that it held on to until the tip, avenging the Asian Games ultimate defeat towards China with a 1-0 win. China had possession, penetration, management and 10 penalty corners however couldn’t discover a well past the Korean defence and goalkeeper Eunji Kim.
The outcomes: Japan 3 (Rika Ogawa, Mai Toriyama, Shiho Kobayakawa) bt Malaysia 0; China misplaced to Korea 1 (Sujin An); India (Sangita Kumari 3, Monika, Salima Tete, Deepika, Lalremsiami) bt Thailand 1 (Supansa Samanso).
