Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], November 4 (ANI): Japan girls’s hockey workforce head coach Jude Menezes heaped reward on the workforce for producing a robust efficiency and bouncing again after going one objective down towards China within the ongoing Jharkhand Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2023.
Japan sealed their place within the remaining after their exceptional comeback to beat China. Luo Tiantian broke the stalemate within the first quarter to present event favourites China a objective benefit.
Japan bounced again within the second half, with Urata Kana and Suzuki Miyu changing a penalty nook every handy them a bonus and finally see off the sport by 2-1.
After the sport, Menezes hailed the workforce’s effort to bounce again towards a robust opposition. “The girls were fantastic today. The fight that they showed after being a goal down, the fight they showed, I am very proud of their effort. I just want to enjoy this win for now, celebrate with the girls and then make a strategy.”China’s girls’s hockey workforce coach, Alyson Annan, admitted that their workforce did not put sufficient efforts to stroll away with a victory.
“We didn’t play well, we didn’t put efforts to play a good game and that what we need to learn. You have to work hard to win games and we didn’t do that,” Annan stated after China’s 2-1 defeat.
Menezes is a former India hockey participant. India will play Japan within the remaining of the event on Sunday. India sealed their spot within the remaining in a while Satuday with a 2-0 victory over South Korea. (ANI)