| Indian women lose bronze medal match
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September 9, 2007
China 4 India 2
Smarting from their defeat at the hands of Japan in Saturday’s final fixture, China came back to score a 4-2 victory over India to take the bronze medal in the 6th Asia Cup Womens Hockey Championships played at Kings Park.
Starting the match a cracking pace, China stormed the Indian goal mouth from the opening whistle with Tang Chung Ling, one of the teams leading goal scorers, having a wild swing and missing the ball completely when she only had Indian goal keeper Marita Tirkey to beat.
Just two minutes later Tirkey was called on to make a fine save from an acute angle shot fired in by Li Hong Xia. Then as the action quickly moved to the China circle, the Chinese goall keeper Zhang yi Ming was forced to save a deflection by Indian captain Mamta Kharab in the 6th minute.
China then began to take control of the match despite Indian attempts to slow down the blistering early pace and a Chinese attack launched by Song Qing Ling down the left saw her latch on to a rebound and beat Tirkey with a great shot to give China a 1-0 lead.
China's pace on attack forced several more penalty corners and in the 22nd minute Chinese captain Ma Yi Bo converted with a superbly taken flick high into the net to make the score 2-0. Five minutes later another leading China goal scorer Li Hong Xia made it 3-0 after an Indian lapse in defence on the right.
With China continually probing the Indian defence with speedy runs down both flanks, the half time score stood at 3-0.
The pattern continued at the resumption with China again forcing yet another penalty corner in the 42nd minute. and again it was skipper Ma Yi Bo who converted to make the score 4-0.
Then just when it seemed that they were down and out, the Indians began to take some semblance of control in the match. And with the team forcing a rare penalty corner, vice captain Suman Bala converted to claw one back with the score at 4-1 to China.
Then in an astonishing passage of play two Indian players, Joydeep Kaur and top forward Jasjeet Kaur, both received yellow cards for rough play in 53rd and 56th minutes respectively. And very surprisingly China was unable to take advantage of an Indian side down to nine players for a short period.
Back to full strength, it was India who put in a strong finish to pull back another goal when Jasjeet Kaur led an attack down the right to draw the defence and score the final goal of the match in the 69th minute with China winning 4-2 at the final whistle.
This gave China the bronze medal while India took the fourth place slot.
Result: China 4 : India 2 (China: Ma Yi Bo 2, Song Qing Ling, Li Hong Xia - India: Suman Bala, Jasjeet Kaur)
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Final Standings :
1. India
2. S Korea
3. Malaysia
4. Japan
5. China
6. Pakistan
7. Bangladesh
8. Hong Kong
9. Sri Lanka
10. Singapore
11. Thailand
Sunday's Matches  |
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| TEAM A | TEAM B | Playoff | TIME | RESULT | |||
| S Lanka | SPore | 9/10 | 08:00 | 6-0 | |||
| Ban | HKG | 7/8 | 07:00 | 3-1 | |||
| China | Pak | 5/6 | 09:30 | 3-2 | |||
| Malaysia | Japan | 3/4 | 16:00 | 5-3 | |||
| India | S Korea | 1/2 | 18:30 | 7-2 | |||
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Saturday's Matches |
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| TEAM A | v | TEAM B | TIME | RESULT | |||
| Singapore | v | Thailand | 08:00 | 4-0 | |||
| Pak | v | Ban | 07:00 | 10-0 | |||
| China | v | HongKong | 09:30 | 6-1 | |||
| S Korea | v | Malaysia | 17:00 | 2-1 | |||
| India | v | Japan | 19:30 | 4-1 | |||
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SCORE TABLE |
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| POOL A | |||||||
| TEAM | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | PTS |
| Malaysia SF | 4 | 3 | 1 | 26 | 4 | 10 | |
| Japan SF | 4 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 9 | |
| Pakistan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 7 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 28 | 3 | |
| Singapore | 4 | 4 | 2 | 27 | 0 | ||
| POOL B | |||||||
| TEAM | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | PTS |
| India SF | 5 | 5 | 46 | 2 | 15 | ||
| S Korea SF | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 41 | 8 | 10 |
| China | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 6 | 10 |
| Bangladesh | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 22 | 6 | |
| Sri Lanka | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 46 | 3 | |
| Thailand | 5 | 5 | 1 | 67 | 0 | ||
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