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Breda (Netherlands): Commencing the Volvo Invitational U-21 (Men) Tournament 2015 on a winning note, India claimed its first victory against Germany by defeating them 3-0 in their inaugural match of the tournament on Sunday.<\/p>\nBreda (Netherlands): Commencing the Volvo Invitational U-21 (Men) Tournament 2015 on a winning note, India claimed its first victory against Germany by defeating them 3-0 in their inaugural match of the tournament on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The tournament witnessed an exciting face off between India and Germany where both the teams made crucial attempts to penetrate the defence of the other.<\/p>\n
India began the game on a good note by scoring its first goal in the 29th minute which came from the stick of Armaan Qureshi through a field effort. Having started the proceedings, the Indian men maintained a good pace in the entire first half and did not allow the German men to open their score card and the scores stood 1-0 in favour of India at half time.<\/p>\n
The game continued to be in support of India as the proceedings in the second half were initiated by Captain Harjeet Singh who smartly entered the opponent’s D and smashed an excellent field goal in the 46th minute to double the lead to 2-0. On the other hand, Germany constantly tried to create space in the opponent’s D but all its efforts went in vain when India’s Harmanpreet Singh efficiently converted a penalty corner, thereby adding the third goal to the Indian team’s account in the 52nd minute. Unsuccessful in scoring any goal, Germany lost to India 0-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Breda (Netherlands): Commencing the Volvo Invitational U-21 (Men) Tournament 2015 on a winning note, India claimed its first victory against Germany by defeating them 3-0 in their inaugural match of the tournament on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The tournament witnessed an exciting face off between India and Germany where both the teams made crucial attempts to penetrate the defence of the other.<\/p>\n
India began the game on a good note by scoring its first goal in the 29th minute which came from the stick of Armaan Qureshi through a field effort. Having started the proceedings, the Indian men maintained a good pace in the entire first half and did not allow the German men to open their score card and the scores stood 1-0 in favour of India at half time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey-hockey"],"yoast_head":"\n