{"id":22662,"date":"2021-07-27T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=130101"},"modified":"2021-07-27T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T04:58:07","slug":"tokyo-olympics-india-beats-spain-3-0-in-the-third-group-match-of-mens-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-india-beats-spain-3-0-in-the-third-group-match-of-mens-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: India beats Spain 3-0 in the third group match of men\u2019s hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a huge 1-7 loss against Australia, the Indian men\u2019s hockey team managed to recover and overcome 3-0 against Spain to register their second victory at the Tokyo Games on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IND<\/a> 3 \u2013 0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ESP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ESP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3\ufe0f\u20e3rd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> match<br \/>3\ufe0f\u20e3 Splendid goals <\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHockeyIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheHockeyIndia<\/a> have had a good morning indeed. \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hockey?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hockey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicKhel\/status\/1419850021650923521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Followed by India\u2019s loss against Australia, the Blues had triumphed over 3-2 New Zealand in their opening.<\/p>\n<p>India, at the Oi Hockey Stadium, started with dominance in possession at the introductory 10 minutes but failed to formulate any possibility to mark a goal while Spain enrolled their presence in the game later slowly and supervised to ensure their first penalty corner at the 12th minute which went in vain.<\/p>\n<p>Indian missed their first chance of lead at 8th minute of their third Pool A match where Simranjeet attempt the mistake to misplace it with several shots and attack strived by the opponent but Simranjeet, to rectify of what he missed before scored to give a lead to his side with a hit on the counter at 14th minute. Just after a minute of the first goal, Rupinder Pal Singh without a mistake doubled the score at the 15th minute to give India a 2-0 head converting the fourth of the many penalty corners they earned.<\/p>\n<p>PR Sreejesh who was called in the 24th minute directed his team brilliantly and ended Spain\u2019s stint 2-0 at halftime. In the fourth quarter, it was again the Indians with their third of the game when Rupinder Pal Singh scored a brace extending to 3-0 against the Spaniards at the 51st minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish team went on the attack after trailing 3-0 but couldn\u2019t survive to control and that\u2019s how the match ended in favour of the fourth-ranked Indians and Sreejesh with a clean sheet.<\/p>\n<p>India will next face the reigning Olympic champions Argentina on Thursday, who drew 1-1 against Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian men\u2019s hockey team recovers by defeating Spain 3-0 in their third group match of the Tokyo Olympics. Rupinder Singh scored a brace and Simranjeet Singh gave the first lead to the Indian side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":42848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[660,281,1732,1709,164,1891,773,2450,2228,2125,638],"class_list":["post-22662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-argentina","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-india","tag-manpreet-singh","tag-new-zealand","tag-olympic","tag-spain","tag-sreejesh","tag-tokyo-2020","tag-tokyo-games","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}