Paris: Spain played against India today in the hockey bronze medal match of the 33rd Olympic series. While the Indian team has won 3 bronze medals in this Olympics so far, the disqualification of Vinesh Bhoga broke the hearts of the Indians when they were expected to get at least a silver medal in wrestling yesterday.
In this case, the entire India was hoping for a bronze medal hockey match today. In accordance with that belief, in the hockey match played today, they defeated the Spain team 2-1 and won the bronze medal.
And since this is the last match of Indian team’s star goalkeeper Sreejesh, this match was highly anticipated among the fans. In the first quarter of this match, the Spanish team played a serious attacking game. But neither team scored any goal.
After that, they converted a penalty corner which was awarded to the Spanish team at the beginning of the 2nd quarter. Thus, the Spanish team took a 1-0 lead. Then at the end of the 2nd quarter, Harmanpreet, the captain of the Indian team, scored the penalty corner that the Indian team got.
As a result, the match was tied at 1-1, and in the ensuing match, the Indian team got another penalty corner in the first few minutes of the 3rd quarter. Harmanpreet threatened it again by scoring. With this, the Indian team took the lead in the match by 2-1.
After that the Spanish team tried hard but could not score due to the amazing defense of the Indian team. Thus, at the end of the match, the Indian team defeated the Spanish team 2-1 and won the bronze medal.
With this, the Indian team has won the bronze medal in the hockey tournament of the Olympic series for the 2nd time in a row. It is noteworthy that the same Indian hockey team won the bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics held in 2020.
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