Hockey World Cup Highlights: India vs Wales Highlights: India Hockey Team has sealed a knockout berth with 4-2 win over Wales. Although not very inspiring performance from the whole team, Akashdeep scored a brace to survive Wales challenge. Shamsher Singh converted a penalty corner to give India a lead in Q2. While Akshdeep doubled the lead, Wales found a way back with two consecutive goals. But India held their nerves to seal the deal. In other matches, Netherlands mauled Chile 14-0 while Malasyia secured a narrow 3-2 victory over NewZealand. Follow FIH Hockey World Cup 2023 LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN.
With England winning 4-0 against Spain, they have sealed the top spot on better goal difference. With that, England have booked a direct quarterfinal spot. India and Spain go through to the knockouts from Pool D. India finished 2nd with 7 points while Spain finished with 3 points.
- Malaysia 3-2 New Zealand
- Netherlands 14-0 Chile
- Spain 0-4 England
- India 4-2 Wales
Hockey World Cup Highlights: India seal knockout berth with 4-2 win over Wales, Netherlands maul Chile 14-0, Malaysia & England win, Watch Hockey WC Highlights
Malaysia vs NewZealand Highlights: In the other match, which was closely contested Malaysia defeated NZ by 3-2. The first quarter saw Black Sticks earning a penalty stroke in the second minute, but failing to convert it. Malaysia was also unsuccessful in converting a PC earned in seventh minute, but an eighth-minute strike from Faizal Saari gave Malaysia an early lead. Malaysia led 1-0 at the end of the first quarter.
The second quarter was goalless despite Malaysia getting two PCs. At the end of the second quarter and the first half, Malaysia still had a 1-0 lead. Malaysia doubled the lead in the third quarter with the help of a goal from Razie Rahim in the 42nd minute. At the end of the third quarter, Malaysia had a 2-0 lead.
The final quarter saw Black Sticks staging a fightback as quick goals from Hayden Phillips (51st minute), Sam Lane (52nd minute) made things even between both the sides. But Faizal scored his second goal of the match in 56th minute to give Malaysia the lead once again. Malaysia ended on the winning side by 3-2, despite NZ earning a PC in 57th minute.
Netherlands vs Chile Highlights: The first quarter of the match ended with the Netherlands leading 1-0. The Dutch earned a PC in the sixth minute and Jip Janssen wasted no time in converting them.
The second quarter turned out to be more miserable for the debutant Chilean team as Derck de Vilder (22nd minute), Thijs van Dam (23rd minute), skipper Thierry Brinkman (25th minute) took barely three minutes to make it 4-0 for the Dutch. Netherlands earned a PC in the 29th minute and Janssen converted it successfully to make it 5-0 for the Netherlands. At the end of the second quarter and first half, Netherlands led 5-0.
The third quarter was the worst for Chileans and three-time champions Netherlands continued making a mockery out of their defence. Goals from Brinkman (33rd minute), Janssen (34th minute, penalty corner), Terrance Pieters (37th minute), Koen Bijen (40th minute), Justen Blok (42th minute) and Janssen (44th minute, penalty corner) made it a whooping 11-0 in favour of the Dutch. With the final quarter to go, the Netherlands was leading 11-0.
Chile earned their first PC in the 50th minute, but could not convert it. Meanwhile, Netherlands broke the record for scoring most goals by a team in a single WC match, with Koen (45th minute), Teun Beins (48th minute, penalty stroke) and Brinkman (58th minute, penalty stroke) scoring more to make it 14-0.
Spain vs England Highlights: England defeated Spain 4-0 in their final Pool D match on Thursday. Phil Roper (10th minute), David Condon (21st minute), Nicholas Bandurak (50th minute) and Liam Ansell (51st minute) scored for England.
India vs Wales Highlights: Akashdeep scored a brace to help India secure a 4-2 victory over Wales. With the win, India finished 2nd in Pool D. However, with England finishing top with a better goal difference, India will have to go through to the quarterfinals through Cross-Overs. Wales staged a mini-comeback in Q3. But Akashdeep and Harmanpreet Singh made the difference. India will now face NewZealand in the Crossover.
Needing to win by a margin of eight goals to directly qualify for the quarterfinals, India failed to live up to the expectations as they finished second in Pool D behind England.
Both India and England ended their pool engagements on seven points each after winning two matches and drawing one but the European side topped Pool D on the basis of superior goal difference.
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