Asian Champions Trophy / Team India's thumping victory over Japan, beating 5-0 to enter the final, now this team will compete

Asian Champions Trophy: The semi-final match of the Asian Championship was played between India and Japan. This match was organized in Chennai. Which the Indian hockey team won by a margin of 5-0. With the victory of Team India, he has now reached the final of this tournament. Where they will compete with Malaysia. India is just one step away from winning this tournament on their home ground. Team India did not give Japan a chance to recover from the very first quarter in this semi-final. Due to which Japan could not score a single goal against the hosts.

Team India showed strong game

Team India completely dominated the semi-finals of the Asian Championship. The Japanese team could not run ahead of the Indian players. Akashdeep Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Sumit and Selva Karthi scored one goal each for India in this match. These players scored goals in all quarters except the first quarter. On the other hand, none of the players from Japan could score a goal. However, the Japanese players also missed many important chances in this match.

How was the match

Talking about the match played between India and Japan, India continued its aggressive game from the first quarter itself. However, neither team scored a single goal in the first quarter. Both the teams ended the first quarter at 0-0. But Team India showed their real game from the second quarter and Akashdeep Singh scored the first goal in the 19th minute of the match. Right after this Harmanpreet Singh scored another goal in the 23rd minute with the help of penalty shootout to give Team India a 2-0 lead. Mandeep Singh also scored a goal in the same quarter. Mandeep Singh scored the goal in the 30th minute of the match. In the second quarter, Team India scored a total of three goals and took a 3-0 lead till the halfway point.

The Japanese team could not do anything special in the third and fourth quarter of the match. He hoped that he would make a comeback in these two quarters, but he could not get one in front of Team India. Sumit scored India's fourth goal in the third quarter of the match. He did this feat in the 39th minute of the match. After this, in the last quarter of the match, Selva Karthi also scored a goal to take Team India ahead by 5-0. He scored this goal in the 51st minute. Team India would also like to continue this form against Malaysia in the final match.