NEW DELHI: India women played their best possible hockey of the FIH World Cup in London on Tuesday to overcome Italy 3-Zero in the crossover match and e-book their position in the quarter-finals of the showpiece tournament.
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A Ninth-minute goal from Lalremsiami put India forward early, and Neha Goyal added the cushion in the final minute of the third quarter. Vandana Katariya then put it beyond Italy with a 55th-minute strike at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in the England capital.
It's for the first time since Madrid 1978 that India are a few of the most sensible 8 of a World Cup. They finished 7th 40 years in the past.
"We came here to win this game," stated India captain Rani Rampal after the match. "We all knew this was the most important game, but our journey is not finished yet. We got our chances and scored off them. We will focus on our next match now."
India will play Ireland in the quarter-finals at 00:45 a.m. IST on Friday, having lost to the similar warring parties in the pool stage of the event.
"It will be an exciting game against Ireland. We played in the pool game, but it will be different in a World Cup quarterfinal," Rani shot off a caution.
The starvation to win that Rani mentioned after the draw against USA kept India alive used to be on the pitch for the entire 60 minutes on Tuesday.
India bossed the game and not allowed Italy to discover a footing in the match, blockading the counter-attacks that the Italians depend on so heavily.
The key for India used to be all the time going to be scoring early, which youngster Lalremsiami ensured after India briefly took a long corner to search out the Italian defence slumbering. Siami, as the striker's team-mates name her, held her nerves to reverse-sweep the ball into the net.
Coming into the second one quarter, India nearly doubled their lead in the 19th minute when Udita discovered herself at the end of a free ball with just the goalkeeper to overcome, but she did not trap properly and Martina Chirico's kicker got here to Italy's rescue.
India held onto their skinny 1-Zero lead at half-time.
The third quarter started on a an identical attacking note for India. The Italian 'keeper used to be already beaten this time in a goal-mouth scramble, but Navneet just could not regulate the ball when she needed to just faucet it in from five yards.
India kept switching their options on penalty corners from Gurjit Kaur to Rani and Deepika, till they were given it right on the fourth one just earlier than the hooter sounded the tip of Q3.
Neha used to be unsleeping to the chance in a tussle to search out the ball from under the Italian 'keeper and pushed it home. The umpire, after giving a goal to start with, decided to ask the video umpire who concurred with the decision.
Italy's only penalty corner got here in the first minute of fourth quarter but it surely remained futile as Savita easily saved the direct attempt.
India were given back-to-back penalty corners in the 55th minute, and scored off the subsequent one as Vandana positioned herself deftly in the heart to deflect Gurjit's flick into the net.
India could have added a fourth goal in the 56th minute when Navneet were given a transparent probability in a one-to-one situation, but she slammed the ball immediately into the goalkeeper's pads.
ALSO READ: India vs Italy - as it happened
A Ninth-minute goal from Lalremsiami put India forward early, and Neha Goyal added the cushion in the final minute of the third quarter. Vandana Katariya then put it beyond Italy with a 55th-minute strike at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in the England capital.
It's for the first time since Madrid 1978 that India are a few of the most sensible 8 of a World Cup. They finished 7th 40 years in the past.
"We came here to win this game," stated India captain Rani Rampal after the match. "We all knew this was the most important game, but our journey is not finished yet. We got our chances and scored off them. We will focus on our next match now."
India will play Ireland in the quarter-finals at 00:45 a.m. IST on Friday, having lost to the similar warring parties in the pool stage of the event.
"It will be an exciting game against Ireland. We played in the pool game, but it will be different in a World Cup quarterfinal," Rani shot off a caution.
The starvation to win that Rani mentioned after the draw against USA kept India alive used to be on the pitch for the entire 60 minutes on Tuesday.
India bossed the game and not allowed Italy to discover a footing in the match, blockading the counter-attacks that the Italians depend on so heavily.
The key for India used to be all the time going to be scoring early, which youngster Lalremsiami ensured after India briefly took a long corner to search out the Italian defence slumbering. Siami, as the striker's team-mates name her, held her nerves to reverse-sweep the ball into the net.
Coming into the second one quarter, India nearly doubled their lead in the 19th minute when Udita discovered herself at the end of a free ball with just the goalkeeper to overcome, but she did not trap properly and Martina Chirico's kicker got here to Italy's rescue.
India held onto their skinny 1-Zero lead at half-time.
The third quarter started on a an identical attacking note for India. The Italian 'keeper used to be already beaten this time in a goal-mouth scramble, but Navneet just could not regulate the ball when she needed to just faucet it in from five yards.
India kept switching their options on penalty corners from Gurjit Kaur to Rani and Deepika, till they were given it right on the fourth one just earlier than the hooter sounded the tip of Q3.
Neha used to be unsleeping to the chance in a tussle to search out the ball from under the Italian 'keeper and pushed it home. The umpire, after giving a goal to start with, decided to ask the video umpire who concurred with the decision.
Italy's only penalty corner got here in the first minute of fourth quarter but it surely remained futile as Savita easily saved the direct attempt.
India were given back-to-back penalty corners in the 55th minute, and scored off the subsequent one as Vandana positioned herself deftly in the heart to deflect Gurjit's flick into the net.
India could have added a fourth goal in the 56th minute when Navneet were given a transparent probability in a one-to-one situation, but she slammed the ball immediately into the goalkeeper's pads.
Women's Hockey World Cup: India beat Italy 3-0 to enter quarters
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