India vs Spain Hockey World Cup Highlight: IND start campaign with 2-0 win

India vs Spain, Hockey World Cup 2023 Highlights: The Indian team started its World Cup campaign with a 2-0 win against Spain in their first Group D encounter. Amit Rohidas and Hardik Singh scored

9:04 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: India will play England next

India 2-0 Spain

End of Play

India would now play England in their second group game and that game would be the decider for whether they top the group or not. England beat Wales 5-0 in their opening game and therefore another mouth-watering clash would await the fans at the Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium in Rourkela. 

9:01 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Victory for India, but there were misses as well

India 2-0 Spain

End of Play

India have defeated Spain and would be proud of their defensive efforts as they saved three penalty corners not allowing their opponents to score even a single goal. Although, they themselves lacked when it came to the attacking third and could convert only of their six penalty corners and one penalty stroke. Goals were scored by vice-captain and defender Amit Rohidas in the first quarter and midfielder Hardik Singh in the second quarter. 

8:53 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: India win 2-0

8:48 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Spain lose referral, India almost there

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 4

Spain have gone for the review with only seconds remaining in the game and they are asking for a penalty corner claiming that Indian defender Surender Kumar played the ball out of the game intentionally 

8:45 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: PC to Spain 

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 4

02 minutes to go 

The Indian team is now back to 11 men on the field and they have to survive yet another penalty corner now 

8:42 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Great save by KB Pathak once again

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 4

05 minutes to go 

India have saved even the second penalty corner that has come against them. KB Pathak is in the gaol again instead of the regular PR Sreejesh and with just around five minutes to go, India would do well to hold on to the two-goal lead
 

8:38 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Spain waste great opportunity

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 4

08 minutes to go 

Spain have given away a great chance to come back in the game as there were two very neat chances for them in the Indian D against an Indain team which is down to 10 men 

8:35 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: India to play the next minutes with 10 players 

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 4

12 minutes to go 

India’s forward Abhishek has been given a 10-minute card for a tackle on the Spanish player as the Spaniard fell down after the tackle, The replays showed that it was a 50-50 tackle and in fact Abhsiehsk reached the ball first and should not have been penalised so badly. But now for almost the entire fourth quarter, India would be with 10 players and defending 2 goals to win the match. 

8:30 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Third quarter is full of mistakes of hosts 

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 3 Ends

The Indian team has been very good in the midfield, winning the balls and providing them to the forwards, the forwards to a certain extent have been better as well, making good chances and creating penalty corners. However, it is the conversion of the opportunities that have been bad. India got four direct chances to get a goal and they wasted all of them in the third quarter. There were two penalty corners and one penalty stroke wasted by skipper Harmanpreet Singh while Samsher Singh couldn’t put the ball in an empty net from a pass from Nilkanta Sharma

8:26 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Samsher misses a great chance 

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 3

03 Minutes to Go

Earlier it was Harmanpreet and now it is Samseher Singh who has missed an opportunity as Nilkanata Sharma came with the ball after dodging a defender near the 16-yard circle and rushed straight to the far post where Samsher was waiting, but he just couldn’t get a touch on the ball and India wasted another opportunity 

8:21 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Problem of Penalty Corner conversion persists

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 3

06 Minutes to Go

Harmanpreet Singh is now unable to convert a straight third shot at goal, this time around it has come courtesy of a penalty corner. So far, India have converted only one penalty corner out of the four that they have got

8:16 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Man advantage for India

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 3

10 Minutes to Go

The Indian team has a man advantage for five minutes as a Spanish player has been sent for a five-minute suspension to the bench with a yellow card 
 

8:14 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Harmanpreet Singh unable to convert the stroke 

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 3

Akashdeep Singh created a stroke for India as he was tackled from behind while trying to go for a goal. Harmanpreet Singh was offered the easiest shot in hockey, a penalty stroke and he failed to convert that and also wasted a review for India. 
 

8:10 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Indian coach says he needs more penalty corners

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter 3

The Indian coach Graham Reid said that he needs the Indian team to create a lot of chances and especially penalty corners while the Spanish coach acknowledged the fact that his team has been over-run by the Indian side. 
 

8:06 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: India dominate the stats 

India 2-0 Spain

First Half, Quarter 2 Ends

At the end of the first half, the Indian team has 75% possession as compared to 25% of Spain, 17 circle penetrations as compared to 9 of Spain and have converted one of their penalty corners as compared to 0 of 1 by their opponents. 

8:01 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Surender Kumar with a save, India end first half on a high

India 2-0 Spain

First Half Ends, Quarter 2 Ends

Surender Kumar put in a great save as the Indian goalkeeper KB Pathak was left alone with just Surender alongside him who put out a stick and saved the ball from brewing passed to the waiting Spanish forward. This was the last play of the quarter and the first half as goals from Amit Rohidas and Hardik Singh keep India 2-0 

7:58 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Akashdeep given a green card 

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter- 2

India’s Akshsdeep Singh has been asked to stay off the pitch for two minutes after getting a green card for a bad tackle on the Spanish forwards 
 

7:55 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Hardik Singh scores the second for India

India 2-0 Spain

Quarter- 2

04 Minutes to Go 

Right after conceding a penalty corner, India have scored the second goal on the counter-attack as Hardik Singh, in an attempt to pass the ball to Lalit Upadhyay, managed to put the goal in the box. 

7:51 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Its been Quite in the second half

India 1-0 Spain

Quarter- 2

07 Minutes to Go 

The second quarter has so far been quiet with not a lot of moves from whether sides and particularly India have been too defensive after going all out in the last few minutes of the first quarter 

7:43 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: India dominate the first quarter

The first quarter of the game is over and it is India who have dominated the proceedings with three penalty corners and 14 circle penetrations against Spain’s 0 penalty corners and only three circle penetrations 
 

7:38 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: 3rd penalty corner for India 

Now, India get their third penalty corner of the game and it is in the dying moments of the first quarter and India have been unable to score on this one. But suddenly there is a lot of spurt in the game from the Indian side 
 

7:36 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Amit Rohidas scores, India 1-0 up

Amit Rohidas, the Indian vice-captain scored the first goal of the game as it came off the rebound after the early shot from Harmanpreet. It is also India’s 200th goal for the Indian team in World Cup history. 
 

7:34 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: India get the first Penalty Corner and waste it 

India have the first penalty corner and there is a good opportunity for skipper Harmanpreet Singh as India waste it with a variation with Harman not even getting a shot at goal. 
 

7:32 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Brilliant defending by Spain so far 

The Spanish defence has been very tight early in the game as they have allowed the Indians almost no space to take the shots at goal. India has been good enough to try and penetrate the circle as much as it could 
 

7:28 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: India seeking possession 

The first eight minutes of the game have all been Spain as India is looking to get the possessions of the ball. There have not been any brilliant moves by either side so far and the Indian side is lacking to get the balls in the midfield. 
 

7:23 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Iglesia wastes a golden chance

Andres Iglesia of Spain wasted a golden opportunity in the first 60 seconds of the game as he had an open goal in front of him, but could not finish the game 
 

7:21 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: The national anthems are done it's now time for the game

The national anthems of both the teams are done and now is the time for the game to begin before that Naveen Patnaik the patron of Indian hockey and the CM of Odisha presented the International Hockey Federation with a memento to commemorate the moment of India playing its first World Cup game at the largest Hockey Stadium in the world. 
 

7:17 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: Know about the Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium

6:54 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: The Lineups are out

6:51 PM

India vs Spain Live Score, Hockey World Cup: England lead Wales 4-0

In the third game of the day, England is already leading their neighbours Wales 4-0 with seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Goals have been scored by Park Nicholas, who scored in the very first minute, Ansell Liam in the 27th and 37th minutes through penalty corners and Roper Phil through a field goal in the 41st minute.