India’s Performance in Germany Tour

India’s men Hockey team slammed Germany with a stunning victory of 6-1 in their opening match. Team India is touring Germany for a four-match series in the European tour.India’s Nilakanta Sharma scored a goal in the 13th minute of the first quarter.

But Germany’s Constantin Staib soon equalized in a minute to ensure teams went into short break on even terms.After Germany’s attack in the second quarter, India went on a counter-attack leading to another goal by Vivek Prasad (27th minute) within a few seconds Prasad also scored a second.In the third quarter, Germany won six penalties but failed to score any as Indian veteran PR Sreejesh stopped all.

Strikers Lalit Upadhyay and Akashdeep Singh scored twice in two minutes to help the team to a massive 5-1 lead.In the fourth quarter, Vice captain Harmanpreet Singh scored and made India’s lead 6-1. “It was absolutely thrilling to play after so long and the coach’s advice to us was ‘go and enjoy the game’ and so we did,” PR Sreejesh said after the match. “

I feel we did well against this squad, considering we were playing after a year,” he added.
On the flip side, India’s women hockey team lost all their games on Germany tour.Sonja Zimmermann(26th minute) and Franzisca Hauke (42nd minute) scored goals for Germany, and won their third consecutive match on Monday.Naomi Heyn (29th minute) Charlotte Stapenhorst (37th minute) scored to win 2-1 in the fourth and the final game. India remained winless in the tour with this match.