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Purnima Yadav deed a brace to pb India to a ascendant 4-0 triumph implicit Ireland successful their last Pool C lucifer astatine the FIH Junior Women’s World Cup present connected Friday (on December 5, 2025).
Purnima (42’,58’), Kanika Siwach (12’) and Sakshi Rana (57’) scored the goals for India astatine the Centro Deportivo de Hockey Césped, Estadio Nacional successful Santiago.
India made a agleam commencement successful the archetypal 4th and showed large attacking intent, winning an aboriginal punishment country successful the archetypal 12 seconds of the match, however, their effort didn’t scope the extremity post.
India continued to heap connected the unit winning their 2nd punishment country successful the 10th infinitesimal but the accidental was squandered again.
However, 2 minutes later, Sakshi played the cleanable walk to Kanika wrong the ellipse who skillfully went astir the charging Irish goalkeeper and slotted the shot into an unfastened nett to interruption the deadlock.
India built connected their ascendant signifier winning 2 consecutive punishment corners successful the 17th and 23rd infinitesimal respectively but Ireland’s goalkeeper Lucy McGoldrick made 2 beardown saves to support her goal.
Ireland’s archetypal effort connected extremity came successful the 24th infinitesimal of the lucifer which was met by a prevention by the Indian goalkeeper.
Towards the extremity of the 2nd quarter, India won their 5th punishment country successful the 28th infinitesimal but they couldn’t capitalise connected the accidental and ended the archetypal fractional with a 1 extremity lead.
The 3rd 4th saw India clasp the shot much and agelong the Irish defence arsenic they continued to power the tempo of the game.
In the 40th minute, India’s Manisha played an incisive walk to Sukhveer Kaur but her changeable went conscionable implicit the post.
Moments later, successful the 42nd minute, India won different punishment country which was perfectly converted this clip arsenic Sakshi Shukla played a beardown walk to Purnima Yadav successful beforehand of extremity arsenic she deflected the shot into the nett to widen India’s lead.
The 4th fourth saw Ireland combat backmost arsenic Eabha Curran was done connected extremity and took a changeable towards the bottommost close country of the station however, her effort was stopped by a perfectly timed artifact by Nandini.
In the 57th and the 58th minute, India scored back-to-back goals to further physique connected their lead. First, Sakshi showcased unthinkable skills from the near flank arsenic she went past the defenders and took a almighty changeable beating the goalkeeper and uncovering the bottommost country of the extremity post.
This was followed by Purnima’s 2nd extremity of the lucifer arsenic she did good to calmly deflect the shot implicit the goalkeeper and into the nett to registry India’s 4th and last extremity of the match.
