Sant Cugat del Valles (Spain), Aug 12:
Indian men’s hockey team returned to winning ways and defeated hosts Spain 2-0 in the fourth match of the ongoing tour of Europe, here today.
After emerging winners against France in the two matches of their first leg, India had started the second leg of the Europe tour with a disappointing 1-4 defeat against Spain on Monday.
But the Sardar Singh-led side bounced back strongly in the second match against Spain to level the series 1-1.
Ramandeep Singh (17th) and Akashdeep Singh (33rd) scored two field goals to register the win for India.
Stunned by the loss in the first match against Spain, the Indians started aggressively today.
S V Sunil and Akashdeep exchanged some good passes to set up India’s first scoring chance but they were denied by the Spanish goalkeeper, who made a brilliant save.
Spain also made some good forays inside the Indian circle but visiting team custodian P R Sreejesh was upto the mark as both the teams failed to break the deadlock in the first quarter.
Spain had the first shot at goal in the second quarter when they were awarded a penalty corner but Sreejesh deflected stood like a rock in front of the Indian goal to deny the hosts. (PTI)
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