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Olympic Hockey Qualifier: India Beat Russia 4-2 in first Leg of Tokyo Olympics Qualifiers

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Olympic Hockey Qualifier: India Beat Russia 4-2 in first Leg of Tokyo Olympics Qualifiers

Mandeep Singh struck twice as a worse than average India battled past minnows Russia 4-2 in the main leg of the two-coordinate hockey Olympic Qualifier in Bhubaneswar on Friday.

It was required to be a ‘David versus Goliath’ challenge passing by the class and a huge hole in world rankings between the two groups yet world no.

Russia had the main taken shots at the objective in the third moment with Pavel Golubev demonstrating brisk deduction from a free-hit, requiring it himself yet his strike exertion was obstructed by India goalkeeper PR Sreejesh.

India was prevailing yet it was a long way from cakewalk for the hosts as after two minutes Sreejesh had to make another spare before the Russians won a punishment corner.

Be that as it may, two minutes into the subsequent quarter, India were in for a stun as Russia evened out through a field strike from Andrey Kuraev, who in the wake of getting an overhead pass, cut over the highest point of the hover before managing his shot into the base left corner past India’s second goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak.

Minutes after the fact, a plunging Sergey Lepeshkin nearly gave Russia the lead yet his calculated avoidance from Evgeny Artemov’s go from the right, missed the top corner of the Indian objective by a portion.

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