India made it four wins in four at the Asian Champions Trophy, after beating Malaysia 3-1 in Jalandhar on Sunday evening.
In a rematch of last month's Asian Games gold medal match, Harmanpreet Singh gave India the lead in the third minute with a powerful dragflick, as he scored his sixth goal of the tournament.
In the second quarter, Malaysia started well, forcing a number of penalty corners, two of which drew excellent saves from Krishan Bahadur Pathak.
Harmanpreet could've doubled India's lead midway through the second quarter, but another powerful dragflick hit the crossbar. Malaysia got their equaliser in the 25th minute, as Faiz Jali drove one into the circle with power, and Faisal Saari trapped it, before Akhimullah Anuar finished from close range.
A couple of minutes later, India should've gone back ahead, after Hardik found Mandeep unmarked at the far-post, just a yard out from goal. But the striker let the ball go through his feet.
India took the lead again early in the second half, and it came from that man Harmanpreet again. This time he went low and hard with a dragflick, it hit Marhan Jalil's stick on the line, and dribbled past the line.
With Faiz Jali shown a yellow card for a tackle on Mandeep, India used their numerical advantage to double their lead, and it was a special goal from Sukhjeet Singh. The move began with Hardik Singh winning the ball high in midfield. He then slipped it through to Sukhjeet at the top of the circle, and then the forward dribbled away to his left, and then unleashed a fierce reverse hit that struck the roof of the net because Hafizuddin Othman couldn even move in the Malaysian goal.
India got their fourth goal two minutes before the end of the game, as Harmanpreet converted a penalty stroke for yet another hat trick in international hockey, and his eighth goal of this tournament.
India will face South Korea in their last league phase game of the tournament on Monday evening.
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