Nagoya. Indian men's hockey team has entered the final of the Asian Games. India has entered the Asiad title match for the second consecutive time by defeating Pakistan 4-3. Both the men's and women's teams of India have reached the gold medal match of the Asian Games. India was leading 3-0 against Pakistan, but Pakistan made a comeback in the third quarter and leveled the score. However, Abhishek gave India the lead by scoring a field goal 49 seconds before the end of the match, which proved to be decisive in the end.
Pressure created from the first quarter
India started putting pressure against Pakistan from the very first quarter. Harmanpreet Singh scored a penalty to put India ahead 1-0. Earlier, India had got chances to score four times, but the team was missing it. However, Harmanpreet did not miss the opportunity to convert the penalty corner in the fifth minute. After this Dilpreet also scored a goal, but the referee declared it invalid. Harmanpreet then scored another goal from the penalty corner in the 13th minute and doubled India's lead. After this, in the second quarter, Sukhjit Singh made the score 3-0 by scoring a field goal in the 23rd minute.
India remained ahead till half time
The Indian team maintained a 3-1 lead against Pakistan till half time. For India, Harmanpreet Singh scored two goals in the first quarter, while Sukhjit Singh scored one goal in the second quarter. However, Pakistan also opened the account of a goal. Before the end of the second quarter, Pakistan's Abu Mahmood scored a goal from the penalty corner in the 30th minute. The ball remained in India's court most of the time till half time. During this period, India got seven and Pakistan got six penalty corners. The Indian team converted penalty corners twice, while Pakistan was successful once.
The third quarter was in the name of Pakistan
After trailing till half time, Pakistan tried to make a comeback in the third quarter. Pakistan's Ahmed Butt was shown a yellow card in the 38th minute. Whereas, India's Dilpreet Singh was given green card in the 43rd minute. In the third quarter, Pakistan tried to put pressure on India and Hanan Shahid scored a field goal in the 45th minute. India could not score a single goal in the third quarter. After this, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Waheed Rana scored an equalizing goal in the 49th minute.