Asian Champions Trophy Hockey | India settles with a draw against Malaysia
India and Malaysia played a goalless draw in the ongoing Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament at Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex in Muscat. Both India and Malaysia now have 10 points each from their four matches with India leading the chart on basis of a superior goal difference.
The Indian team got off to a nervy start as they wasted several scoring opportunities early in the match. They had a spate of chances early in the contest, only for Hardik Singh to fritter away a scoring opportunity, Harmanpreet Singh’s penalty corner flick being blocked by the Malaysian goalkeeper and Mandeep Singh failing to get a touch on long diagonal balls twice in the first quarter.
Malaysia created one opening on a
In the second half, the Indian strikers were not allowed space to enter the circle until the closing
Nilakanta Sharma missed the target by inches in one of the combined Indian raids.
Indian Chief Coach Harendra Singh rued the missed chances. “I am not happy. We cannot miss chances like this in international hockey,” said Harendra.
Malaysian Coach Roelant Oltmans said his team faced a tough time when they were down to 10 players due to Tajuddin’s yellow card. “We came under some pressure in the last phase after the yellow card,” said Oltmans. “Otherwise, the game was more
On 24 October 2018, the Indian Men’s Hockey Team will play their fifth round-robin match against Korea at 22.40hrs IST.