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New Delhi: India secured their spot in Saturday\u2019s 5th place playoff match after defeating Germany 5-4 in the 5-8 classification game. Rupinder Singh scored from a penalty corner securing India\u2019s win in the last minute of the match.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: India secured their spot in Saturday\u2019s 5th place playoff match after defeating Germany 5-4 in the 5-8 classification game. Rupinder Singh scored from a penalty corner securing India\u2019s win in the last minute of the match.<\/p>\n
A clearly-pleased coach, Terry Walsh, said: “We tried to play our game, and for large sections of the game we did. We certainly matched the Germans; either team could have won. We came back from being 0-2 down to win, that shows the calibre of these guys.”<\/p>\n
Hero Man of the Match, triple goal scorer Mandeep Singh, said: “I had such great service from the team throughout the match.” Singh’s sharp-shooting won praise from his coach, who said: “When someone is as good in front of goal as this guy, we need to build our team around utilising that talent.”<\/p>\n
The Olympic champions, who had lost their quarter final 3-2 to the Netherlands, opened the scoring thanks to team-captain Oliver Korn (4\u2019) picking up a rebound in the Indian circle and hammering it into the goal. Thilo Stralkowski (6\u2019) doubled the German lead a couple of minutes later when scoring from a penalty corner. His fourth goal in this competition made the 26-year-old new top scorer for his team.<\/p>\n
Mandeep Singh (18\u2019) made the home crowd cheer when finishing a promising Indian counter-attack by a successful shot from the top of the circle. However, Benjamin Wess (27\u2019) added another one for Germany, securing a 3-1 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n
“Getting structure is the key to development in this side. We need to find a way to combine Indian style and flair with technical structure\u201d said Roelant Oltmans, India’s director of performance, at halftime.<\/p>\n
India got the better start in the second half and shocked the European champions with a double-strike from Rupinder Singh (39\u2019) and Mandeep Singh (41\u2019) to level the score to 3-3. The host nation came close to taking the lead when a deflected ball hit the German goal post.<\/p>\n
Mandeep Singh (53\u2019) added his third goal of the day when putting India ahead 4-3. This goal seemed to be a wake-up call for Germany who equalised through a penalty corner goal from Martin H\u00e4ner (55\u2019). <\/p>\n
\u201cWe lost control of the match and then India was there and their spectators as well\u201d, German Tobias Hauke said. Coach Markus Weise agreed: \u201cToday we beat ourselves. We didn\u2019t use our chances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: India secured their spot in Saturday\u2019s 5th place playoff match after defeating Germany 5-4 in the 5-8 classification game. Rupinder Singh scored from a penalty corner securing India\u2019s win in the last minute of the match.<\/p>\n
A clearly-pleased coach, Terry Walsh, said: “We tried to play our game, and for large sections of the game we did. We certainly matched the Germans; either team could have won. We came back from being 0-2 down to win, that shows the calibre of these guys.”<\/p>\n
Hero Man of the Match, triple goal scorer Mandeep Singh, said: “I had such great service from the team throughout the match.” Singh’s sharp-shooting won praise from his coach, who said: “When someone is as good in front of goal as this guy, we need to build our team around utilising that talent.”<\/p>\n
The Olympic champions, who had lost their quarter final 3-2 to the Netherlands, opened the scoring thanks to team-captain Oliver Korn (4\u2019) picking up a rebound in the Indian circle and hammering it into the goal. Thilo Stralkowski (6\u2019) doubled the German lead a couple of minutes later when scoring from a penalty corner. His fourth goal in this competition made the 26-year-old new top scorer for his team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"\n