India Defeat France 5-0 at FIH Hockey Pro League LIVE: Blog, Highlights, Goals, Results
The tournament will be the Indian team's first competitive assignment of the year.
FIH Hockey Pro League India vs France
Welcome to The Live coverage of India vs France match by The Bridge in FIH Hockey Pro League season 2021-22. Carrying the mantle of Olympic bronze medallists has added "some pressure" as India begin their campaign in the match against France at NWU Astro Hockey Stadium in beautiful city Potchefstroom of South Africa.
After France, the Manpreet Singh-led side will face hosts South Africa on Wednesday.
The tournament will be the Indian team's first competitive assignment of the year. World number three India will fancy their chances against both opponents. India haven't played world No. 13 France since winning the world league 2015 semi-finals.
The action starts at 9:30 PM IST.
Match Statistics shows both teams had equal 50-50 Ball Possession, But India lead way ahead in Circle Penetrations and Shots at Goals, That made the difference in match
Match Statistics shows both teams had equal 50-50 Ball Possession, But India lead way ahead in Circle Penetrations and Shots at Goals, That made the difference in match
A very good start to indian campaign in FIH Hockey Pro League.
India will next face South Africa Tommorrow at 9:30 PM IST
India finished the first match of the FIH Hockey pro League season 2021-22 on high note with 5 goal drabbing of France.
last 2 minutes left in match, both teams increased pace a lot but no lot of missed chances for both teams in last 10 minutes.
2nd Penality Corner of the match for France. They failed to convert
India will look to score few more goals in last Quarter.
End of Q3 | A cracking game from us so far and we will look to end the game with a couple more goals and a clean sheet to our name. 🙌
— Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) February 8, 2022
🇫🇷 0:5 🇮🇳#IndiaKaGame
Akashdeep Singh makes his 200th international appearance special with a goal with french goalkeeper loosing concetration for sometime.
GOAL!!
— Give Me Hockey (@hockeyind) February 8, 2022
Akashdeep joins goal scorers list with a beautiful reverse stick goal
France 0-5 India#FIHProLeague #FRAvIND
Mandeep Singh quickly converts pass of captain manpreet singh into Goal
The match statistics at half Time shows equal possesion, but Indian team having 4 Penality corners compared to france's just 1.
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