{"id":22705,"date":"2021-08-01T19:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=131874"},"modified":"2021-08-02T01:47:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:17:32","slug":"tokyo-olympics-india-advances-into-the-semi-finals-of-the-mens-hockey-after-49-years-beating-britain-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-india-advances-into-the-semi-finals-of-the-mens-hockey-after-49-years-beating-britain-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: India advances into the semi-finals of the men\u2019s hockey after 41 years, beating Britain 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India beat Great Britain 3-1 to set up the clash against Belgium at the semifinals. The Blues have managed to reach the Olympics semifinals for the first time in 41 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alexa, please play Chak De India \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\udfb6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndiaKaGame?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndiaKaGame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HaiTayyar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HaiTayyar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TokyoTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TokyoTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HockeyInvites?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HockeyInvites<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreTeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreTeamIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hockey?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kx6dd54fLt\">pic.twitter.com\/Kx6dd54fLt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheHockeyIndia\/status\/1421827892300840962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Indians started with an early lead at the 7th minute of the first quarter where Dilpreet Singh who appeared in his 50th game for the Indian men\u2019s hockey team scored the first goal to empower his side.<\/p>\n<p>The goalkeeper had been stunning in the game throughout and saved many crucial shots. At minute 12\u2032, Britain\u2019s Sam Ward tried for an equaliser but Sreejesh managed to keep the clean sheet with his brilliant save.<\/p>\n<p>After a dominating first quarter, Indians scored their second goal into the 16th minute of the start of the second quarter where Gurjant without a mistake converted Hardik Singh\u2019s pass and doubled the scoreline for his side right into the opponent\u2019s net.<\/p>\n<p>The men in blue stepped into the third quarter with a two-goal advantage but Britain at the 45th minute took away the clean sheet from the Indians and scored. They tried for an equaliser two minutes later but it was saved by Sreejesh yet again followed by another brilliant save of the opponents at the 50th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Hardik Singh expanded India\u2019s score for the third goal by his second attempt after a great run at 57th minute to make it 3-1. The British team failed to survive and that\u2019s how the match ended in favour of Manpreet Singh\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has survived to advance to the semifinals of the men\u2019s hockey at the Tokyo Olympics in 41 years defeating Great Britain 3-1 in the last quarterfinal fixture on Sunday. They will face Belgium next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":42891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[281,1732,2450,1555,2228,2125,638],"class_list":["post-22705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-india","tag-sreejesh","tag-tokyo","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\/22705","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=22705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}