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Incheon (South Korea): In the last league match of Pool B played on Saturday at Seonhak Hockey Stadium in Incheon, South Korea, the Indian men hockey team downed China 2-0 to mark a spectacular entry into the semi-final of the 17th Asian Games 2014. The Indian team displayed an exceptional level of game and edged out China, storming into the semi-finals thus keeping the hopes of a Gold medal for India alive.<\/p>\n
The entire first & second quarters of the game remains goalless as the score stood at 0-0 at half time.<\/p>\n
It was only in the 3rd quarter of the game that India was awarded a penalty corner in the 40th minute. Indian defender V R Raghunath took the strike and without leaving any room for mistakes, perfectly converted the penalty corner into the maiden goal of the game giving India a required lead of 1-0.<\/p>\n
Soon after V R Raghunath’s penalty, India scored its second goal of the match in the 45th minute which came from the stick of defender Birendra Lakra, taking the score for India to 2-0.<\/p>\n
No goals were scored in the 4th quarter of the game. When the final whistle blew, the scoreboard showed a score of 2-0 indicating a thunderous win for the Indian Men and confirmed their entry into semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Incheon (South Korea): In the last league match of Pool B played on Saturday at Seonhak Hockey Stadium in Incheon, South Korea, the Indian men hockey team downed China 2-0 to mark a spectacular entry into the semi-final of the 17th Asian Games 2014. The Indian team displayed an exceptional level of game and edged out China, storming into the semi-finals thus keeping the hopes of a Gold medal for India alive.<\/p>\n
The entire first & second quarters of the game remains goalless as the score stood at 0-0 at half time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[7559,7560,4222],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-asian-games-2014","tag-indian-men-hockey","tag-v-r-raghunath"],"yoast_head":"\n