India scored the primary objective of the sport when Magnificence Dung Dung completed off a fast transfer
Hangzhou, thirteenth September 2025: The Indian Girls’s Hockey Crew put in a tremendous efficiency towards Japan, drawing 1-1 on the Girls’s Asia Cup 2025, in Hangzhou. India will attain Ultimate of the Girls’s Asia Cup 2025, if China beat Korea or keep away from a defeat by lower than two targets margin. Within the match towards Japan, India drew first blood as they scored early by means of Magnificence Dung Dung (7’), while it was Shiho Kobayakawa (58’) who equalised for the Japanese.
India had the higher begin within the early exchanges of the competition and threatened inside the first jiffy itself, as Ishika Chaudhary hit the body of the objective. After that Japan started to place collectively a couple of strikes in assault, however had been shortly pushed again as India struck within the type of Magnificence Dung Dung (7’), who deflected Neha’s shot into the web to make it 1-0. India continued to assault, and earned the sport’s first penalty nook within the closing moments of the primary quarter, which ended with the rating at 1-0.
Japan got here out within the second quarter on the lookout for the equaliser and had been on the entrance foot within the first jiffy. Japan gained a penalty nook as nicely, however India stored them out with out a lot hassle. As the competition progressed, the Indian Girls’s Hockey Crew began to regain the possession, and commenced constructing in assault. Japan’s defence although held on after which put they put the stress on India within the closing levels of the primary half. Nevertheless, India’s defence stored them at arm’s size and went into the break with the rating at 1-0.
The third quarter noticed the Indian Girls’s Hockey Crew up the ante towards Japan’s defence. Lalremsiami was typically on the coronary heart of the attacking strikes. Nevertheless, the Japanese workforce held on and absorbed the stress. India’s assault had been on track within the quarter and had been relentless in assault, however couldn’t discover the second objective to go with their dominance. On the break, India led 1-0.
The ultimate quarter noticed Japan stepping it up in assault as they seemed for an equaliser. The defending champions had been beneath stress and the Indian Girls’s Hockey Crew’s defence continued to repel the Japanese assaults. Mid-way by means of the quarter, India began to maneuver again up the pitch, and gained a flurry of penalty corners, to place the stress again on their opponents. Within the closing minutes, Japan scored by means of Shiho Kobayakawa (58’) to make it 1-1.
Ultimately, each groups shared the spoils as they had been locked at 1-1 when the hooter sounded.
