Asian Champions Trophy: India defeat Bangladesh 9-0

Indian eased past hosts Bangladesh with a convincing 90 victory in the Mens Asian Champions Trophy at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey StadiumIt was Dilpreet Singh who starred in Indias win with a fine hattrick that gave India a breakthrough in the first quarter He scored goals in the 12th 22nd and 44th minute to put pressure on the Bangladeshi defence while Jarmanpreet Singh 31 43 Lalit Upadhyay 29 Akashdeep Singh 54 Mandeep Mor 55 and Harmanpreet Singh 57 too scored in Indias first win at the prestigious continental tournamentThe match started with a resilient Bangladeshi defence disrupting their highoctane attacks of Indian forwards As many as eight PCs earned by India in the first quarter were brilliantly defended by the hosts particularly their first rushers doing a fine job to keepIndia from taking an early lead Dilpreet Singh managed to break the gridlock in the 12th minute with a good assist by Skipper Manpreet Singh was put away by the young forward to give India 10 lead Dilpreet doubled Indias lead in the 22nd minute and Lalit scored from a fine deflection via Harmanpreets drag flick to take Indias tally to 30 at halftimeDuring the tenminute break Indias Chief Coach Graham Reid insisted that the team will start the third quarter afresh with a clean slate and work on improvised variations to score The players acted upon his advice as they showcased a much better attack and the variations in PC proved hard for the hosts to defendIndia added two more goals in the third quarter through a well executed PC attack led by Harmanpreet Singh and Jarmanpreet he was on target scoring backtoback goals The duo helped in taking Indias lead to a formidable 50 while Dilpreet scored his hattrick in the 44th minute extending Indias lead to 60 The final quarter saw an array of goals scored by India which helped them seal the victory with nine goals India dominated the match with 16 shots on goal and 25 circleentriesSpeaking about their performance today Skipper Manpreet Singh said It was a good effort from the team and we tried different variations in this match which we had been working on during our training I feel at the start we couldnt convert as Bangladesh had put up a very strong PC defence But at halftime Coach Graham provided important inputs on how we could improvise ou attack and as you all could see we improvised as the match progressedWe will go back and further analyse todays and yesterdays game against Korea and find ways to come up with a much better performance against Pakistan he added On Friday India will take on Pakistan in the ongoing tournamentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever