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India blanked Switzerland 5-0 successful a contention betwixt 2 unbeaten teams of the FIH Junior Men’s World Cup 2025 present to unafraid the Pool-B apical spot.
With 9 points aft 3 matches, caput manager P.R. Sreejesh’s broadside besides secured transition to the quarterfinals.
Manmeet Singh sent the packed assemblage astatine the Madurai International Hockey Stadium into raptures, opening the scoring wrong 2 minutes aft a botched clearance from the Swiss defence.
Manmeet scored his 2nd with a deflection connected the fractional turn, disconnected a accelerated crushed walk from Priyobarta Talem.
Sharda Nand Tiwari converted a punishment country to guarantee the Blue Colts went into the 2nd 4th comfortably successful the lead.
With consenting runners crossed the baseline, the defence attempted intermittent scooped passes, but the maneuver failed to materialise. Arshdeep Singh got onto the scoresheet precocious successful the 2nd play via a reverse deed with his backmost facing the extremity to widen India’s lead.
Arshdeep Singh scored precocious successful the 2nd period. | Photo Credit: G. MOORTHY
Switzerland came retired aft the half-time interruption with renewed intensity.
Princedeep shines
Goalkeeper Princedeep Singh was called into action, archetypal with a beardown footwear and past with a full-length dive to propulsion the shot distant with his stick.
The custodian capped a beardown 4th with a stunning punishment changeable prevention against Yannick Hug.
The last 15 minutes of play turned retired to beryllium a carnal affair, and with the location broadside not astatine its fluent best, the doorway was unfastened for an improbable comeback.
That anticipation was extinguished erstwhile Sharda Nand recovered the bottommost near country with his 2nd PC extremity of the day, sealing a 5-0 win.
Belgium situation next
Awaiting India successful the last 8 volition beryllium a Belgium broadside that scraped done arsenic 1 of the champion second-placed teams.
Earlier, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands precocious with ascendant wins successful their last league-stage encounters.
The results: In Madurai: Pool-D: Spain 13 (Bruno Avila 5, 23, 47 & 58, Andres Medina 7 & 27, Albert Serrahima 15, Nicolas Mustaros 37, Ton Moran 41, Josep Martin 44 & 59, Aleix Bozal 54, Pere Amat 55) bt Namibia 0; Belgium 10 (Lucas Balthazar 4 & 23, Maximilian Langer 18, 25 & 59, Benjamin Thiery 28, Mathias Francois 33, Jean Cloetens 50, Hugo Labouchere 53, Marin van Heel 56) bt Egypt 0.
Pool-E: Netherlands 11 (Finn van Bijnen 21 & 35, Casper Hafkamp 27, Joppe Wolbert 31, Thies Bakker 36, Jens de Vuijst 39, Casper van der Veen 48, 53 & 54, Pepijn van der Valk 49, Jan van ‘t Land 56) bt Austria 0; England 3 (Henry Markham 4, Michael Royden 36, Alex Chihota 57) bt Malaysia 1 (Azimuddin Kamaruddin 47).
Pool-B: India 5 (Manmeet Singh 2 & 11, Sharda Nand Tiwari 13 & 54, Arshdeep Singh 28) bt Switzerland 0.
In Chennai:
Pool-F: France 3 (Tom Gaillard 6, Gabin Lorrazuri 31, James Liddiard 37) bt Bangladesh 2 (Md. Abdullah 27, Amirul Islam 54); Australia 3 (Duncan Jackson 16, Ian Grobbelaar 34, Daykin Stanger 52) bt South Korea 1 (Seunghan Son 20).
