Indian hockey team defeated New Zealand 3-2.
Paris Olympics 2024: The Indian men’s hockey team has started with a great victory in the Paris Olympics 2024. In this nail-biting match, captain Harmanpreet Singh ensured the team’s victory by scoring a goal in the penalty shootout in the last 2 minutes. In this match, both the teams played very aggressively but in the end the Indian hockey team managed to win the match 3-2. With this win, India now has 3 points in its account, while their next group match will be against Argentina on 29 July.
The score was tied 1-1 in the first 2 quarters
If we talk about this match, then in the first quarter, New Zealand’s Layne Sam scored a goal in the 8th minute itself and put his team ahead by 1-0. After this, till the end of the first quarter, the Kiwi team was ahead in the match by 1-0. With the start of the second quarter, the Indian team scored the first goal in this match in the 24th minute which came from Mandeep Singh and the match was tied at 1-1. At the end of the second quarter, the match was completely tied.
Vivek Sagar gave lead and Kiwi team equalized
The third goal from the Indian team came in the third quarter of the match when Vivek Sagar scored a goal and put the team ahead by 2-1. After this, a very aggressive play was seen from the Kiwi team in which Simon Child scored a penalty corner goal and brought his team to a 2-2 draw in the match.
After this, in the fourth quarter, when the last 2 minutes of the game were left, India got a penalty shoot opportunity in which captain Harmanpreet Singh took full advantage of the opportunity and scored the third goal and played an important role in helping India win the match by 3-2.
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