IND vs ESP, Professional League 2022: India defeats Spain 3-1 in shootout

India’s captain Harmanpreet Singh guided India to thrash Spain in a shootout 3-1 after a 2-2 attract its fourth FIH Hockey Professional League sport on the Kalinga Stadium right here on Sunday.

Harmanpreet flicked the ball previous the Spain goalkeeper’s left hand to internet India’s first purpose within the eleventh minute.

After Surender Kumar obtained a inexperienced card within the 14th minute, India was 10 gamers down, Spain did not take the nook alternative. When Manpreet Singh obtained the inexperienced card within the twenty first minute, an identical scenario noticed the customer’s lack of ability to transform yet one more nook.

The Indian skipper scored his second purpose of the sport through a penalty nook within the thirty first minute.

After a number of saves off corners, the Indian goalkeeper Krishnan Pathak did not learn Marc Miralles’s flick off a nook into the left nook within the forty second minute, and Spain was a purpose away from restoring parity. Pere Amat hit one onto Pathak, nonetheless, the ball hit Jugraj Singh’s leg and rolled to the purpose, as Spain equalised rating 2-2 within the 54th minute.

Within the shootout, Harmanpreet secured a purpose via a penalty stroke as Spanish keeper Mario Garin fouled. Other than Shamsher Singh, whose again stick hit the ball and did not safe a purpose, Raj Kumar Pal and Abhishek managed to slip the ball previous Garin. Alternatively, Pathak stood regular whereas he missed Gerard Clapes’s effort and the Indian managed to save lots of Joaquin Menini, Rafael Vilallonga and Miralles’s makes an attempt to information India to a 3-1 shoot-out win.

India will play its subsequent league sport towards Germany on March 10, 2023, at Rourkela.