Hockey Pro League - India Women lose 0-5 to Belgium - Updates, Results, Scores, Blog
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Indian women's hockey team (Source: Hockey India)
After a hard-fought 60 minutes, the Indian hockey women's team fell to a 1-2 loss against Belgium on Saturday. They women in blue looked quite solid but committed errors at crucial junctures to let the match slip.
Can they bounce back and end their campaign in Belgium on a high?
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That's all we have from the Indian women's team's clash against Belgium in the Hockey Pro League. If they lost 1-2 yesterday to let the Pro League title slip away, the result was far from ideal tonight with a 0-5 loss.
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That's that. India go down 0-5 to Belgium in their second Hockey Pro League encounter. The hosts started off well scoring twice in the first quarter and there was no looking back for them.
The scoreline might suggest the Indian goalkeepers - Punia and Bichu, messed up but it could not be far from the fact. Both the Indian goalkeepers were right on the money with multiple saves but it was their defence which let them down.
India gets a PC and Gurjit is not in the middle. Deep Grace Ekka takes on the responsibility, but it goes just wide after a deflection from a Belgian stick.
The Indians are giving it their all. Just four minutes left on the clock and they are still going all in. Nothing worth opening their account though.
Belgium come on a very fast paced counter. It looks as if they will get their sixth on the board, but Gurjit, out of nowhere, comes out with a diving tackle to send the ball towards a long corner.
Don't think anyone has ever seen Gurjit Kaur dive like that. That was good to see!
A rare error in front of the goal from Belgium. They penetrate from the right and Ballenghien has the entire post open all for herself. She fails to connect the stick to the ball and that's a golden opportunity missed.
Belgium miss the PC and gets a long corner. They take their own sweet time to restart, but the Indians clear it easily.
Belgium on the attack straightaway and they get a PC. Can they pile on the misery over the Indians?
This was much much better from India. They looked much more comfortable and drew multiple errors from the Belgians, who kept gifting away the possession. The women in blue have looked very dangerous on the press and would hope to carry forward the momentum in the final 15 minutes and hit at least one back.
IND 0-5 BEL
India penetrate well from the right, but Monika loses control of the ball and hits the ball out. Ah, this could have been India's first goal. Nevertheless, a very good move.
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