{"id":3545,"date":"2017-12-11T14:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T08:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=3545"},"modified":"2017-12-11T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T09:00:07","slug":"hockey-world-league-final-india-aim-bronze-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/hockey-world-league-final-india-aim-bronze-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey World League Final: India aim a bronze finish"},"content":{"rendered":"

India reclaimed the bronze medal at the Hockey World League (HWL) Final after eking out a close 2-1 win over a depleted but spirited Germany in the third-fourth place classification match in Bhubaneswar on Sunday, 10 December.<\/h2>\n

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It was always going to be a David vs Goliath task for Germany. They were already a depleted side before start of the match and lost five players to illness and injuries.<\/p>\n

Germany did not give India any clear cut chance but created a few. They secured the first penalty corner of the first quarter in the 14th minute. But it was well defended by the Indians.<\/p>\n

Soon after Germany captain Mark Grambusch, who himself played with fever, got a good opportunity but his shot from left side was just wide of the target.<\/p>\n

It was set up by Harmanpreet Singh’s defence splitting ball to Akashdeep Singh inside the D but his reverse shot was saved by German custodian Tobias Hauke and from the resultant rebound Sunil scored to give India the lead.<\/p>\n

India had the first shot at the goal after the change of ends but Akashdeep’s shot in the 33rd minute was kept away by Hauke.<\/p>\n

India secured three back-to-back penalty corners in a span of two minutes the last of which was converted by Harmanpreet with a powerful, low grounded flick to take the lead which they managed to hold on despite last-ditch efforts from the Germans who failed to utilise another penalty corner in the dying minutes of the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India reclaimed the bronze medal at the Hockey World League (HWL) Final after eking out a close 2-1 win over a depleted but spirited Germany in the third-fourth place classification match in Bhubaneswar on Sunday, 10 December. It was always going to be a David vs Goliath task for Germany. They were already a depleted …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[4959,4958,1404],"class_list":["post-3545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-hockey-news","tag-germany","tag-hockey-world-league","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}