Asia Cup Hockey 2025: Happy to reach the coach Super 4 of the Indian hockey team, said- achieved the first goal

Rajgir The Indian men’s hockey team has shown tremendous game in the Asia Cup. The team’s head coach Craig Fulton is happy to achieve his first goal of qualifying for the Super Char of the tournament. He expects better performance from the team in the tournament. The Indian team won the second consecutive win by defeating Japan after defeating China in the first match. With the consecutive win in two out of 3 league matches, India confirmed the place in the next round.

With the help of Harmanpreet Singh’s two goals, India defeated Japan 3–2 to register a second consecutive win in Pool A and qualified for Super Four with one match remaining. India, who defeated China 4-3 in their first match, will face Kazakhstan in the final pool match on Monday.

Fulton said after the match, “We have achieved our first goal. However, we need to perform better. We will be successful in doing so when the correct synergy is.

He said, “The first half was really good. Our figures are excellent but we could not finish the way the match started. We made some mistakes in the last moments and it was disappointing for us. The Indian coach said, “We were ahead 3-1 and then a goal. We made some mistakes and we got the card but it is part of the game. Captain Harmanpreet was shown a yellow card (punishment for staying out of the field for five minutes) and had to go out of the field just one minute before the match was over. At that time the Indian team was ahead 3-2.

He said, “We dominated the first two quarters but Japan retaliated in the third quarter as he was lagging behind by a big margin.” I felt that in the fourth quarter, we would increase our lead further but it could not happen. ”