Indian womens hockey team faced heartbreak in the Asian Games womens hockey semi-final as Team Blue went down to three-time Champions China by 0-4 in Hangzhou on Thursday. Its Indias first loss to China in their last 11 matches(since Nov 2016).China were clinical throughout the game of 60 minutes as struck four goals past India, who looked to end their 41 years longdrought for the second Asian Games gold medal.Not our day, we go down against China fighting till the very end.Chin up girls, We keep the fight on for the bronze medal match 🥉#HockeyIndia #IndiaKaGame #AsianGames #TeamIndia #HangzhouAsianGames #EnRouteToParis #IndianTeam #SunehraSafar pic.twitter.com/RtM4mtxDez— Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) October 5, 2023 After a goalless first quarter, Indian women were probably the happier side after facing the array of attacks by the Chinese team, while, the three-time champions went a goal up before halftime and quickly doubled their lead in the third quarter to go up by 3-0 against India.Goals from Chineses sideZhong Jiaqi, Zou Meirong, and Gu Bingfeng scored in the 25th, 40th, and 60th minute from penalty corners for China while Liang Meiyu scorred netted the only field goal.Indian team looked to fight back and put in their best efforts after going down in the third and fourth quarters with a range of attacks and gained a flurry of penalty corner opportunities as well.Eventually, India failed to equalize the score opportunities in the penalty corners. In the final few minutes of the game, China found the back of the net two more times to secure their ticket to the final for the record sixth time and will be eyeing their fourth gold in the Asian Games. India will now compete for the bronze medal.
