India vs China Hockey Final, Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024: The Indian women’s hockey team won the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy with a brilliant performance. This title match was played on Wednesday (November 20) in Rajgir, Bihar, in which the Indian team took on China.
In this match, the Indian team showed a good game and defeated China 1-0. With this, the Indian team won this title for the third time. Deepika scored the team’s only goal in the 31st minute. This was her 11th goal of the tournament. Apart from this, China tried to score several goals, but their intention could not be fulfilled.
This time India did not lose any match in the tournament.
The last title was also won by the Indian team. In such a situation, this is the team’s second consecutive title. The host Indian team this time is undefeated in the tournament. This is the only team that has not been defeated so far. India has won all its matches even in the group stage.
The Indian team defeated Japan 2-0 in the semi-finals on Tuesday. On the other hand, China also has a good record in the tournament. He only had to face the defeat of the Indian team in the group stage. China has won 4 of its 5 group matches. They defeated Malaysia 3-1 in the semi-finals.
In this way, the Indian team defeated China for the second time in the current tournament. The Indian women’s team won the silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. On the other hand, the Indian team won the first title with Harendra Singh as the head coach.
This is how India scored the first goal of victory
At half-time the match was tied with no goals between the two teams. But in the third quarter, Deepika was seen in a different colour. Deepika opened the Indian team’s account in the 31st minute. In fact, India got a penalty corner due to China’s mistake.
Sushila makes a mistake in the penalty corner trap, but Navneet receives the ball, creates space at the D and passes it to Deepika. Deepika takes her time and scores the goal brilliantly with her backhand. In this way the Indian team won the match and the title.
