INDIA vs SOUTH KOREA Highlights: The Indian team has defeated South Korea 3-2 in the Asian Championship Trophy. At the same time, after this victory, Team India has reached the semi-finals. In the last match, India defeated Malaysia 5-0. Now defeated South Korea. Talking about this match, the dominance of the Indian team was seen from the very beginning. Neelkanth Sharma scored the first goal for Team India. He scored this goal in the sixth minute. However, South Korea scored a goal in the 12th minute, showing a great game.
These players scored goals for both the teams.
Sunghyun Kim scored for South Korea in the 12th minute. In this way the game came to a level of 1-1. After this, Indian captain Harmanpreet Singh converted the penalty corner into a goal. In this way the Indian team went ahead 2-1. Indian’s lead remained 2-1 till half time. Mandeep Singh scored a brilliant goal in the third quarter for India. He scored this goal in the 33rd minute. In this way, the Indian team went ahead 3-1 in the match.
A pictorial journey through today’s final game between India and Korea❤️
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Indian team reached semi finals.
However, the South Korean players tried hard to come back. South Korea scored the second goal just 2 minutes before the end of the match, but by then it was too late. Yang Zihun scored a penalty corner in the 58th minute. In this way the score became 3-2. However, India won the match 3-2. After this victory, the Indian team confirmed its place in the semi-finals of the Asian Championship Trophy.
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