Asian Champions Trophy: Harmanpreet Singh celebrates 200 goals as India breeze past South Korea
Having won their first three matches already, India tested their backup goalkeeper Suraj Karkera who displayed fantastic skills to win the Player of the Match award. Karkera was at his best in the game as he kept the Korean attackers at bay who tried to find the net a lot of times during the match. India weren't at their best in the defence today but Karkera made sure the efforts from the attackers didn't go in vain as India sealed the game 3-1.
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Araijeet Singh, the player of the match of the Malaysia encounter, opened India's account in the 8th minute and captain Harmanpreet stepped up to double the lead in the very next minute. The penalty corner specialist of India scored his 200th goal in the same way but Korea hit back at the stroke of half-time to reduce India's lead.
However, in the 43rd minute, Harmanpreet once again found the net in the penalty corner to make it 3-1 for India. The last quarter was thrilling as Korea consistently made circle entries to threaten India but Suraj Karkera was too good for them as he didn't let the team's lead go down.
India will face arch-rivals Pakistan on Saturday (September 14) at 1:15 PM IST in their final league-stage encounter and will be keen on continuing their winning run.
India's squad for the Asian Champions Trophy:
Goalkeepers: Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Suraj Karkera
Defenders: Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Harmanpreet Singh (C), Jugraj Singh, Sanjay, Sumit
Midfielders: Raj Kumar Pal, Nilakanta Sharma, Vivek Sagar Prasad (VC), Manpreet Singh, Mohammed Raheel Mouseen
Forwards: Abhishek, Sukhjeet Singh, Araijeet Singh Hundal, Uttam Singh, Gurjot Singh
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