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Highlights Hockey Score And Updates Tokyo Olympics: India Advance to Quarters With 3 Straight Wins, Beat Japan 5-3
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Highlights India vs Japan Hockey Score And Updates Tokyo Olympics (India 5-3 Japan Full Time)
Tokyo: Tokyo: Hello and welcome to our hockey coverage of IND vs JPN, highlights & Updates Tokyo Olympics Hockey Match between India and Japan played at the Oi Hockey Stadium, North Pitch. Gurjant got his second goal of the match in the final quarter with Nilakanta Sharma also getting his name on the scoresheet that helped India beat Japan 5-3 on Friday. This ensures India finish second on the table in Pool A and will face the side which finishes third in Pool B on Sunday. Kota Watanabe helped Japan equalise in the third quarter but India grabbed the lead almost immediately once again with Shamsher Singh making it 3-2 in favour of India. Earlier, India had played well in the first half. Having controlled the game, for the most part, Gurjant Singh opened the scoring for India with Simranjeet extending it to 2-0 but Japan responded well and scored soon after to make it 2-1.
India’s Men Hockey team has already qualified for the quarterfinals of the ongoing Tokyo Olympics 2020. The Manpreet Singh-led team will face Japan in their final Pool A match of the tourney. The Men in Blue is currently at second place in the points table after winning three out of the four matches they have played. India defeated Argentina in their previous encounter by 3-1 whereas they had also beaten Spain by 3-0 after receiving a drubbing at the hands of Australia by 7-1 in their second match. Thus, India will aim to continue their good show against hosts Japan before their quarterfinal clash.
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India Squad: P.R. Sreejesh (GK); Manpreet Singh (C), Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Surender Kumar, Amit Rohidas, Birendra Lakra, Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Nilakanta Sharma, Sumit, Shamsher Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Mandeep Singh
Live Updates
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Thank you for joining us. We look forward to your company on Sunday for the quarter-finals.
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The quarters are scheduled to be played on Sunday, 1st August.
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India finish second in their group and will face whoever finishes third in Pool B.
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India 5-3 Japan (Full Time)
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Great chance for India again but Japan defended that well.
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India lose their referral in the process.
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GOAL! Japan continue to fight. Reduces the deficit to 3-5 in India’s favour. With 1:20 seconds left it might be a little too late.
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GOAL: Gurjant gets his second. And India are well ahead in this match against Japan.
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