Hockey Junior Ladies’s WC: India stun Germany 2-1 to seal quarterfinal berth | Hockey Information

POTCHEFSTROOM: The Indian ladies’s hockey group surprised formidable Germany 2-1 to register its second consecutive win in pool levels and guarantee its place within the quarterfinals of the FIH Junior World Cup on Sunday.
India, who thrashed a lowly Wales 5-1 in its opening Pool D match on Saturday, scored by way of two penalty nook conversions by Lalremsiami (2nd minute) and Mumtaz Khan (twenty fifth) to emerge winners.
Germany’s lone purpose was scored by Jule Bleuel within the 57th minute.

The Indian will end off their pool engagements in opposition to Malaysia on April 5 earlier than the quarterfinal spherical which begins on April 8.
The Indians are at the moment atop Pool D with two wins from as many video games forward of second-placed Germany. Two groups every from swimming pools will qualify for the knock-out rounds.
In opposition to Germany, the Indians took the lead as early as within the second minute when Lalremsiami scored from a rebound after Deepika’s drag flick from a penalty nook was saved by German goalkeeper Mali Wichmann.
Thereafter, Germany proceedings and earned a handful of penalty corners by placing relentless stress on the Indian defence, which stood agency.

India goalkeeper Bichu Devi Karibam had a wonderful match as she not solely denied the Germans from penalty corners on various events but additionally pulled off a superb save to maintain out a penalty stroke by Jette Fleschutz within the second quarter.
The Indians principally relied on counter assaults and from one such transfer secured back-to-back penalty corners, the second of which was deflected in by Mumtaz within the twenty fifth minute.
The Germans have been the attacking aspect for a significant a part of the primary half however have been wasteful in changing penalty corners as they wasted as many as six set items.
The Indians, on different hand, scored from two of the three penalty corners they managed within the first two quarters.
Down by two targets, the Germans continued to assault after the change of ends however as has been the case they failed to seek out the again of the Indian web regardless of creating quite a few possibilities.
The Indians additionally upped their sport a bit within the fourth and last quarter, making inroads into the German circle on fairly just a few events however to no avail.
Germany livened up the sport three minutes from the ultimate hooter by way of a reverse hit area purpose by Bleuel.
However the Indian defence did sufficient within the remaining minutes of the sport to pocket full factors from the sport.
The quadrennial event, which was initially scheduled for final December, was postponed as a result of menace posed by the omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa.
India, who’ve appeared in 4 editions of the junior world occasion, claimed their greatest end in 2013 with a bronze. The group didn’t qualify for the earlier version.