India vs Netherlands LIVE – Junior Hockey Women WC Semifinals LIVE: Netherlands extended their dominance in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup as they defeated India 3-0 to book a place in the final of the tournament. With the win, Netherlands continued their brilliant run as the only team in the tournament to not concede any goals so far. Follow InsideSport.IN for more updates
India vs Netherlands LIVE: Heartbreak for India as Netherlands win semifinals 3-0 to advance into the final of Junior World Cup
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Both the teams started the game aggressively. Within the few seconds after the start of the game, India had an early opportunity to find the net but the striker hit it wide of the post. The girls in blue continued to dominate the proceedings and earned back-to-back penalty corners but couldn’t score from the opportunities.
With three minutes remaining in the first quarter, Dutch striker Beetsma dragged into the net to draw first blood. Within a minute, they soon scored another one in the net but it was deemed invalid as it was scored from the back of the stick.
India vs Netherlands LIVE: Heartbreak for India as Netherlands win semifinals 3-0 to advance into the final of Junior World Cup
In the second quarter too, India continued to put pressure on the Dutch defence, they made good penetrations into their opponents half, but the final touch was missing from the Indians. Meanwhile, Dutch had two penalty corner opportunites but blew one away while another one was defended well by India. With no goals in the second quarter, the players went into the first half break with the score 1-0 in favour of Netherlands.
In the third half, India ran out of steam and gave several opportunities for the Dutch, the strikers however floundered and missed the last pass several times to fail in scoring the goals. With no goals in two quarters, Netherlands gave a good comeback and Luna Fokke finally scored one past the Indian goalkeeper to take the lead 2-0.
Within minutes, they pounced on another opportunity and Jip Dicke converted a brilliant pass to her from the left into the net to seal the final nail on the coffin in the match. They will now face the winner between England and Germany in the summit clash on Tuesday, 12th April. Meanwhile India will play the losers of that contest in a bronze medal contest.
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Road to the semifinals – India
- beat Wales 5-1
- beat Germany 2-1
- beat Malaysia 4-0
- beat Korea 3-0
Road to the semifinals – Netherlands
- beat United States 9-0
- beat Canada 11-0
- beat Zimbabwe 18-0
- beat South Africa 5-0
India vs Netherlands LIVE
- Netherlands seal the contest 3-0 to advance into the final.
- Netherlands scores another within a minute. Jip Dicke gets the pass from the left and she converts it into a goal.
- Netherlands finally gets the much-deserved goal. Luna Fokke hits it into the net.
Fourth Quarter
- India continue to give opportunities to their opponents. Dutch fires another shot which was well-defended by Indian goalkeeper.
- Netherlands get another opportunity but the striker hits wide off the net.
- Dutch squanders another penalty corner opportunity
Third Quarter
- Second penalty corner opportunity for the Dutch. The flick hits an Indian defender.
- Dutch gains penalty corner, but couldn’t find the net.
Second Quarter
- Within a minute they scored another, but it was disallowed as the striker used the back of her stick to shoot it into the net.
- With three minutes remaining in first half, Netherlands take early lead by finding the net with a terrific pass.
- India get another penalty corner opportunity and this time too the girls in blue fail to find the net.
- India get the first penalty corner opportunity. The shot is however saved by the Dutch goalkeeper.
- India get second chance but the shot yet again misses the net.
- India get an early chance but misses the net.
First Quarter
India vs Netherlands LIVE: Heartbreak for India as Netherlands win semifinals 3-0 to advance into the final of Junior World Cup