GB exposes Indian chink five times to one

Antwerp (Belgium), 05 July 2015: Displaying perfect drill on everything they did, Great Britain exposed Indian chinks like never before and in the process walked with easy looking bronze on the final day of the Hockey World League Semifinals at Antwerp in Belgium.

Great Britain stamped its dominance throughout the proceddings and won the game fittingly with one-sided score of 5-1, the lone consolation goal coming off the tired and jaded Rupinder Pal Singh.

After ten minutes of domination, Great Britain went ahead with the first penalty corner when Alastair Brogdon did no mistake in finding the nets on the rebound shot.

In the 27th minute, a long pass by Nick Catlin from outside the semicircle was spectacularly connected by agile Chris Griffiths which really spent shivers down the spines of India. His touch on the ball went into the nets, leaving Indian goalie Sreejesh with no chance to react.

Four minutes into the third quarter, Chinglensana from the right flank passed the ball to Akashdeep Singh in the D and who on his part was slow in capitalizing on the good pass.

In the 37th minute India was seen again in the attack as a very good pass from Lalit Upadhyay to Ramandeep Singh in the D proved to be a golden chance for the latter as there was only the goalkeeper to beat. But unfortunately for Ramandeep, the opponent goalie saved and this was followed by an immediate counter attack by Great Britain, giving Ashley Jackson to convert the easiest of goal.

Indian worked hard to contain the British and also did well to ward off a penalty corner. In the next penalty corner in the 42nd min Adam Dixon finished a neat job (4-0). This was closely followed by another brilliant field goal by Barry Middleton in the 44th minute and third quarter scores stood at 5-0 in their favor.

The fourth and final quarter saw the Indian team increasing its tempo of attack as they could pile up some pressure. Half way into the quarter India had their first shot at the penalty corner and Jasjit Singh taking the flick was wide of the goal box. 56th minute Great Britain got one more penalty corner to their name and Manpreet Singh running out of the goal box averted the danger through his stick. Just a minute left into the game, India through a penalty corner opportunity saw Rupinder Pal Singh finding the nets giving the opponent goalie no chance to stop, taking the score to 1-5.