India’s juggernaut that noticed them thrash Bangladesh 15-1 and Oman 12-2 got here to a halt after a loss in a nail-biting contest in opposition to arch-rivals Pakistan within the ongoing males’s Asian Hockey 5s World Cup Qualifier on Wednesday, August 30.
India misplaced 4-5 to Pakistan earlier than placing collectively a shocking show of hockey in opposition to Oman. It was the trio of Maninder Singh, Gurjot Singh and Mohammed Raheel that scored for India and stored the Males in Blue within the contest. Maninder scored two targets (seventeenth and twenty ninth minutes) and acquired ample help from Gurjot (twelfth minute) and Raheel (twenty first).
Nevertheless, their Pakistan counterparts have been barely higher on the day as Ahtisham Aslam (2nd, third minutes), Zikriya Hayat (fifth min), Abdul Rehman (thirteenth) and Abdul Rana (twenty sixth) led the cost of the Inexperienced Brigade.
Pakistan drew first blood within the thrilling contest as they maintained ball possession early on and Aslam transformed a shocking reverse hit right into a purpose to depart India shellshocked.
India, determined to land an equaliser, left a number of gaps open of their defence and Aslam acquired the opening he wanted. He scored his second purpose of the night as Pakistan doubled their lead with ease. Whereas Aslam made an immaculate effort to attain his second the credit score additionally went to their goalkeeper Ali Raza who foiled an intimidating assault from the Indians and initiated the assault that was executed effectively by Aslam.
The third one additionally got here quickly for Pakistan as Hayat geared toward India’s goalpost from a distance and added to the distress of the Males in Blue. Trailing 3-0, it was going to be a troublesome ask for the Indians to show it round however they did.
Gurjot moved swiftly and launched a shocking assault from the fitting flank to offer India their opening within the contest within the twelfth minute. Nevertheless, earlier than India may land one other purpose and scale back the deficit Abdul scored yet one more to make the scoreline 4-1 earlier than half-time.
India fought valiantly within the second half however the Pakistan gamers stored possession within the dying moments of the sport to script a memorable win.
Earlier, within the day, India routed Oman 12-2 as Raheel (2nd, ninth, thirtieth), Rajbhar (ninth, tenth, twenty first), and Maninder (sixteenth, twenty third, twenty sixth), scored a hat-trick every, whereas Jugraj Singh (third, twenty eighth) and Sukhvinder (twenty ninth) additionally contributed. Crew India will now tackle Malaysia and Japan on Thursday, August 31.
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