What this World Cup marketing campaign has begun to supply is one thing totally different – a group able to adjusting to the sport in entrance of it. (Hockey India)
India girls maintained their unbeaten steak within the Hockey World Cup and drew 0-0 with England of their last Pool D match and made their approach into the subsequent spherical. India thrashed South Africa 6-1 of their final match whereas additionally holding Olympic medallists China within the opener. Because of these outcomes, a draw can be sufficient for the ladies in blue to make their approach to the subsequent spherical.
India are at present second of the desk in Pool D with 4 factors with China topping the desk with 7 factors. England, in the meantime, have 3 factors and solely a win right here can take them by.
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India can be cautious of the attacking menace that England possess, having misplaced to the identical group 2-0 within the World Cup qualifiers in Hyderabad earlier this 12 months. England’s 4-0 win over South Africa underlined their attacking menace, though they subsequently misplaced 2-4 to China.
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India have been all the time favourites going into Tuesday’s contest in Amsterdam, particularly after holding China to a 2-2 draw of their first sport, whereas South Africa have been thrashed 4-0 by England. (Hockey India)
India rout South Africa 6-1, the group that after denied them an Olympic berth
Followers of hockey of a sure classic would do not forget that it was South Africa who denied Indian girls their first go to to an Olympics in 32 years. Within the qualifying match in Delhi, they beat the house group 3-1 in a winner-takes-all conflict in 2012. South Africa weren’t thought of one of many fancied groups in girls’s hockey even then.
That the group match between the 2 groups at the 2026 FIH World Cup was seen primarily as an opportunity for India to spice up their objective distinction says every part concerning the contrasting paths the 2 groups have taken during the last decade and a half. In that sense, the 6-1 win for Sjoerd Marijne’s facet was on anticipated strains, and India now must keep away from defeat in opposition to England on Thursday to make the subsequent spherical.
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