of Ranchi Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Astroturf Stadium The match was played between Germany and Japan on the second day of the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifier. Germany and Japan played a tied match. In the first half, both the teams were seen struggling for the goal. Japan defended Germany’s goal better on many occasions. At the same time, Germany scored the first goal of the match in the third quarter. at the 35th minute nolte lisa Scored the first goal for Germany. At the same time, before the end of the third quarter, Japan’s Hasegawa Mu scored a goal in the 45th minute and brought the score to 1-1.
The coaches of both the teams said this
After the match, Japan’s coach says that it is the fifth ranked team in the world. We could not take it easily. That’s why we played defending. Worked on this only. He further says that our aim was to stop Germany, we did that. This is a team competition and everyone performed well. At the same time, Germany’s coach said that this was not the performance we expected. Certainly the Japanese team played better. We created many chances to score but Japan defended better.
First match: Chile defeated Czech Republic 6-0 with two goals from Uros.
With the help of two goals from Manuela Uroz, Chile defeated Czech Republic 6-0 in their second match of Pool A of the FIH Women’s Olympic Qualifiers on Sunday and kept themselves in the race for qualification for the Paris Games. Chile, ranked 15th in the world rankings, had earlier suffered a 0-3 defeat to Germany on Saturday.
Czech Republic out of the race
After the second consecutive defeat, the Czech Republic team, ranked 25th in the world ranking, was out of the race for the Olympic qualifiers. The team had to face 0-2 defeat against Japan in the opening match of the tournament. Urooj scored field goals in the 36th and 47th minutes. Other goals for the team were scored by Consuelo de las Heras (13th), Camila Carrom (38th), Antonio Morales Orchard (44th) and Maria Maldonado (58th).