Sunday 5 August 2012

Indian Hockey team’s suffering at the Olympics Continued

India v/s Korea Olympic Match
India v/s Korea Olympic Match

London Olympic Indian hockey team’s suffering at the Olympics continued, as their 4th consecutive defeat against South Korea 4-1 in Group B of the Olympic men's hockey competition.


Leading the Korean charge was 25-year Drag Fliker Hyun Woo Nam with two strikes (59th, 70th) and Jong Hyun Jang (6th) and Seung Il Lee (68th) score in with one apiece while India's only goals scorer was Gurwinder Singh Chandi 10th minute a fine cross by Birthday Boy Dharamveer deflected into the Goal.

While  Netherlands and Germany are assured semi-final berths, India are out of medal contention and have to be content to play for Classification Match depend on their results against Belgium in their last league games.

As always, India's Team was all about reaction and individual abilities rather than any framework or plan in distinct comparison to the well-drilled Korean who epitomized group effort.
The Indian Team protection was regularly found flat-footed during the game
while Indians managed to put together a few moves leading to a couple of penalty corners,but not able to convert any one of them.

South Korea began off on a excellent start with a goal in the instant 6th min. But Indian equalized in the 9th through Gurwinder Singh. After that rainfall came down at the Riverbank Field during the first half Both team level 1-1.

However, in the second half of the match, South Korea included two more goal while Indian did not able to convert chances into goal. Korea's third goal  came towards the end, in the 68th min. 4-1 embarrassing lose for the eight-time Olympic medalists Indian.

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