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Hockey Olympic Qualifiers: India defeats Italy 5-1, advance to semifinal - Highlights
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Indian women’s hockey team after win against Italy
LIVE from Ranchi, FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers:
India overwhelmed Italy for a 5-1 win, thanks to two goals from Udita and contributions from Deepika, Salima Tete, and Navneet, in its final Pool B match at the Olympic Qualifiers on Tuesday to finish second in its group, qualifying for the semifinals and keeping its hopes of geting Paris 2024 Olympics ticket.
The Indian team will take on Germany in the semifinals on 18 January.
Live Updates
- 16 Jan 2024 3:44 PM GMT
Full Time: India 5-1 Italy
Indian women's hockey team defeats Italy 5-1 in the final pool B match of FIH Hockey Women's Qualifier. India finished second in the pool & qualifies for semifinal.
- 16 Jan 2024 3:43 PM GMT
60' Goal for Italy
Italy will not go home empty handed, Machin Camila gets goal for vistors by penality corner in last minute.
- 16 Jan 2024 3:36 PM GMT
55' Fifth goal for India
Lalremsiami moving towards goal, tackled aggressively, india gets penality corner and Udita Duhan not misses back of goal post with slap shot.
India 5-0 Italy
- 16 Jan 2024 3:29 PM GMT
53' Fourth goal for India
Navneet Kaur enters the circle, crosses past defenders very fast and scores fourth goal for india.
India 4-0 Italy
- 16 Jan 2024 3:18 PM GMT
Third quarter ends: India 3-0 Italy
A solid display in the third quarter from India and they have cashed in all the dominance to score two more goals. The crowd is loving it here as local girl Salima Tete scored the third goal.
India 3-0 Italy
- 16 Jan 2024 3:17 PM GMT
45' Local girl Salima Tete scores the third goal.
A booming reverse hit from Salima and it ends into the Italian net sending the crowd in ruptures. India is dominating the game completely now.
India 3-0 Italy
- 16 Jan 2024 3:16 PM GMT
44' India saved a penalty corner.
Italian PC battery fails to trap the injection and the Indian defence easily clears it away to keep the Italians at bay.
India 2-0 Italy
- 16 Jan 2024 3:13 PM GMT
41' India scores the second goal.
Deepika scores from the penalty stroke as the Indian team double their lead in the match.
India 2-0 Italy
