New Delhi: In the bronze medal match played between India and Spain, India won a spectacular victory by defeating Spain 2-1. With this victory, India has won the bronze medal. India has retained the last Olympic bronze medal. Team India made a great comeback after losing in the semi-finals and captured the bronze medal. The Indian players performed brilliantly and won the bronze medal for the fourth time in the Olympics. With this, the Indian hockey team gave a grand farewell to PR Sreejesh.
India dominated the first quarter
. India started aggressively in this match. As a result, India missed two goals in the first quarter. Most of the time in the first quarter, the Indian players had the possession of the ball. But in this quarter, there were some crucial opportunities which they could not capitalize on. However, in the meantime, the Indian player Sanjay was hit by the ball on his head due to which he had to sit out. India showed attacking play in this quarter. The first quarter ended with a score of 0-0.
Score till half time: India 1-0 Spain
The Indian team, which came to play in the second quarter, started brilliantly and kept the ball in its possession for 3 minutes. After that, Spain got a penalty corner in the 17th minute of the match and in the 18th minute, Spain got the first goal by a Spanish player piercing PR Sreejesh. After this, the Spanish team came into attacking mode and again got a penalty corner in the 20th minute. India once again came into attacking mode and had a chance to score a goal in the 25th minute but they could not capitalize on it. In the 29th minute of the match, India got a penalty corner again before the completion of the second half. In the last 10 seconds, India’s Harmanpreet Singh scored a goal and made a comeback. By the end of the second half, the score was equal to 1-1.
India dominated in the third quarter
After half time, India started attacking brilliantly in the third quarter. Once again, Indian player Harmanpreet gave India the lead by scoring a powerful goal in the 33rd minute of the match. After this goal, India took a 2-1 lead and kept India’s hopes of bronze medal alive. After that, India got a penalty corner in the 34th minute. After that, India continued to perform brilliantly and did not let the opposing team emerge and maintained a 2-1 lead over Spain till the third quarter.
India’s thrilling victory in the fourth quarter
When India came to play in the fourth quarter, it could only see the bronze medal. India continued to play brilliantly in the fourth quarter and did not let Spain come into attacking mode and continued to attack itself. Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh showed brilliant play and saved many important goals and increased India’s lead.
