Asian Champions Trophy Champion Final: The Indian team has won the Asian Champions Trophy hockey title. Team India, led by Manpreet Singh, won the title by defeating Malaysia 4-3 in a thrilling final. In fact, in this exciting final, Team India was trailing 3-1 till the end of the third half, but after that the Indian players showed a wonderful game. At the end of the third half, India overturned the losing game by scoring 2 goals in just 1 minute.
Captain Manpreet Singh scored for India in the 45th minute. Soon after this, India scored again. In this way the game came to a level of 3-3. In the 56th minute for India, Akashdeep Singh counter-attacked and scored an excellent field goal. In this way the Indian team managed to win the title match 4-3.
Team India made a great start to the final
The Indian team started the final in a grand manner. The Indian team led by Manpreet Singh got a penalty corner in the eighth minute. Jugraj Singh scored on this penalty corner. In this way, the Indian team went ahead 1-0, but after this, Malaysia presented a spectacular game. Malaysia did it in the 14th minute. After this, Malaysia scored a goal in the 18th minute. In this way the Malaysian team went ahead 2-1.
We can’t ask for a better final than this🥹💙
India’s incredible comeback seals victory, making them champions of the Hero Asian Champions Trophy Chennai 2023.🏆🇮🇳 India 4-3 Malaysia 🇲🇾#HockeyIndia #IndiaKaGame #HACT2023 @CMO_Odisha @CMOTamilnadu @asia_hockey @FIH_Hockey, pic.twitter.com/gJZU3Cc6dD
— Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) August 12, 2023
Backward team India after scoring the first goal
Meanwhile, the Indian team kept getting chances to score, but failed to capitalize. At the same time, in the 28th minute for Malaysia, Mohammad Aminuddin scored a penalty corner to put the team ahead 3-1. In this way the Indian team lagged behind 3-1. But Indian players showed amazing game in the last minutes of the third half. Team India players scored 2 goals in about 1 minute.
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