The Indian team has earned nine
penalty corners but utilised only just two with Harman Preet permute the
hosts eighth set piece in the 66th minute to string a last four berth. Indians looked completely off-colour in
the opening half. There were mushy mistakes while confining and releasing the ball during the first half. Spain came out with a good tight defensive structure and reckon on man marking
to stop attacking Indians. Spain then took the lead in the 22nd minute through penalty
corner conversion much to the stunned silence of the cohort crowd.
In the four minutes into second
half, Spain almost extended their lead but curator Vikas Dahiya came to his
side's rescue to deny Serrahima. The Indian team continued to attack but goals
dodge them as Spanish goalkeeper Perez came up with a double save to deny
Armaa Qureshi first and then Manpreet from the glance. In the last 10 minutes, India got four more
penalty corners and the penultimate one was eventually converted by Harman Preet
to take the lead for the first time in the match. It was a tense last couple of
minutes for the hosts as they were reduced to 10 men after Armaan was shown
yellow card for an unnecessary tackle.
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