HHIL 2004 Semifinal 2
Ranchi
2
VS
Punjab
3
HHIL 2004 Semifinal 2
Ranchi Vs Punjab
2014-02-22 16:41:25
Commentary
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Sandeep Singh is man of the match
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Punjab Warriors reach the finals of the second HHIL
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What a save by Jaap, dives to his right and deflects a grounder of Jackson, to enter the final
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Penalty Corner
Untiring Ashley Jackson earns a saviour PC for RR, as Mark Knwells falls on the ball on top edge of D, just 30 sec left in the clock
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A feeble Punjab attack, with Dhram miscuing his shot
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RR attacks with exchanges between Barry, Ashley and Manpreet, a shot by Ashley from left side of the D, but hits the side netting
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Kothajit injured in the process, taken out of field
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Affan alone, solo, tripped near the baseline, tripper is Kothajit
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Great stuff by Briendra lakra as he almost stops a goal of PWs, despite being lone defender
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Satbir spoil a good move by Floris
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End to end stuff going on, with every player giving their best, a Manpreet's shot at goal blocked
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Jamie takes long corner, Ashley rescues a melee
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Kothajit blocks a good PW attack
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Goal
Moritz slop inside D, Jaap blocks, ball rises high, Floris jumps and places the ball inside D
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Yellow Card
For both Manpreet and Gurmail
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Green Card
Justin Reid misses a sitter, a short rebound from goalie's back side, sitter goes waster for RR
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SCUFFLE: Gurmail and Manpreet
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Coach Gregg Clarke changes Cortes with Sushant Tirkey, to allow more forwards from India
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Goal
Affan sends a cross into D, Jake whetton whacks an angular diagonal shot, which preached Cortes to land on the other side of the net, great goal for Punjab
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Penalty Corner
Jamie sends a good pass inside D to Affan, who was near baseline, he gives a minus, Sunil takes a push towards cage, a defender falls on the ball leading to PW PC
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Goal
At the stroke of 3rd quarter, Sandeep Singh scores off this PC, 11th goal now
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Sunil splits the defence, shot uppish, moments later Rob also does the same
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Satbir hard tackle of Ashley, lot of ball rotation, and moves
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Floris Evers tackles Sandeep on the left flank, into D, cold not keep the ball in play, goes outside baseline
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Simon Orchard holds the entire midfield astry, peps up attack, match exciting
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Gurmail elbows Prabhdeep of RR, match physical
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Rob could not stop properly, he himself took a try but the ball wide
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Penalty Corner
Charger Amit takes on his stick, still hits him, turns into another PC
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Penalty Corner
Affan shows enough skill to earn 3rd PC for PWs
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Ashley in cracking form, despite so many legs and sticks, holds the ball, and sends a diagonal from centre of D, just misses, angle slightly more
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Lucas Rey injured as a ball of Moritz Furste hits him his left cheek
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Lot of slaps shots all over the places, as goal entries are less, fight to dominate ball possession on view
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High press game on display
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HALF TIME
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Dharamvir very physical with Ashley Jackson, who is floored, umpires not bothered, even as HT comes in
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Punjab backpasses a lot with sweeper back Rob Hammond in the thick of things, yet gets occasional turn overs
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Simon Orchard sets up Affan, missing are galore from both sides as match is played on fast pace
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Moritz again brings cheers into RR, with good moves upfront, Manpreet too joins him to avoid sticks of Jamie in the centre
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RR attacks for a while, Punjab on backfoot
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Ashley slaps the ball into D, Barry again slow to react, PW intercept to clear,
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Kieran Govers takes the shot, charger intercept close to him, ball bounces, Sandeep whacks, but now Cortes had all the time in the world to take it on his chest and clear
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Penalty Corner
PW earn a penalty on counter attack, Shivender earning it being lone in the D, puts it on the foot of a defender
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Justin Reid-Ross goes for indirect, sends the pushed ball to Barry, who just misses to connect despite diving
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Penalty Corner
Shivender, in a desperation, sends the ball out of play from inside D, concedes a PC to RR
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Sandeep aims left top corner, and beats Cortes on speed, to score his 10th goal, and even out score right now in the semfinal
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Goal
Sandeep scores
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Penalty Corner
Affan extract a difficult ball from rival D, set ups Dharmvir, who earn a PC on the edge of D, as he was stick-checked
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Dharmvir into circle, two pushes from near goal, goalie Cortes upto the task, Punjab misses a chance to score, SV sunil demand for PC, umpire unmoved
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Amit and Jake Whetton tussle for ball, Whetton gets to crack a cross into D, though no further movement from his forwards
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RR lives upto the home reputation, as they hold on to their slender lead at the end of first quarter.
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RR reinforces its hold on the match with bringing in Kothajit
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Moritz Furste sends a good hit in inside D, bur ball rises
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Goal
Manpreet ejects, Ashley pushes the flick into the right side of the cage, to the right of Jaap Stockman, his fifth goal
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Penalty Corner
With long holding on the left baseline, Floris Evers force a stick check, and gets first PC of the match
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Game a bit slowed down, both sides read other
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Ashley engineers a move from left flank, but his cross into the D intercepted well
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RR attacks well, though a gentle pass on top of D intercepted and the line of attack goes from RR to PWs
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Barry hit on eye by a speeding RR forward
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Jake Whetton again pierce the circle, had to lose possession on the sideline
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Unlike previous semifinal, this one is fast from the word go
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Jake Whetton reverse hit towards D, goalie blocks, good attacks from Punjab, a Affan shot from top of D too stopped by defence on the goaline
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Barry pressed into attack by Gregg Clarke
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SV Sunil ploughs lone furrow in the rival 25y area, lacks support
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Match about to start
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Pradeep Singh on the left wing, dodges all and reach rival D, before Punjab defence wakes up, still they attack, with Amit and Briendra Lakra doing upfront work
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Both teams line up for exchange of greetings, and a VIP being introduced to the teams.
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Ranchi, the defending champions, will have to bring out their best, something etc too, to win today's semfinal, as they lost last two matches to Punjab. This is their third straight match, with every aspect of the games and its stat in favour of Punjab
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Earlier today, Delhi defeated UPW 1-0 to enter tomorrow's final
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