2016 Rio India vs Belgium Hockey Quarterfinal Match Preview, Live Score, Live Streaming, Team News And Prediction

Quarterfinal India vs Belgium Hockey Match Preview

Final score : IND 1 – 3 BEL (Belgium won).

Commentary

Match over. India 1 – 3 Belgium. Indian team are out of the Rio Olympics 2016.
60′ minutes – Last 60 second left.
58′ minutes – Last 2 minutes left now.
56′ minutes – Last 4 minutes left now.
53′ minutes – India is losing the plot here. Time is moving fast. Score still 3-1.
50′ minutes – Goal!!! by Tom Boon. Score 3-1. India is going down here.
48′ minutes Another PC to Belgium team. Third of the match and missed. Again great save by Indian wall PR sreejesh.
47′ minutes – India is looking to attack in the last quarter.
Last quarter Q4 has started.
Q3 over.
45′ minutes – Goal!!! Top class goal by Sebastien Dockier – his second of the match. Score 2-1.
44′ minutes – Another PC to Belgian team, second of the game and missed. Incredible save by Sreejesh.
42′ minutes – Green card to Raghunath. He is out for 2 minutes.
40′ minutes – Long corner to India.
38′ minutes – Belgian team is keeping possession, not letting Indian players to get on the ball.
36′ minutes – Back to back attack by Belgian forwards. Indian team is under pressure now.
34′ minutes – Goal!! Great goal by Sebastien Dockier. Score 1-1 now.
32′ minutes – Belgium attacks from the first minute itself in Q3. Fine save by PR Sreejesh.
Second Half has started. Q3 in progress.
Q3 will start in few minutes.
Q2 over. Half time – Score : IND 1 – 0 BEL.
30′ minutes – PC to Belgium team, first of the match and missed. Great save by PR Sreejesh.
30′ minutes – Long corner to Belgium team.
28′ minutes – Last 2 minutes left in first half now.
26′ minutes – Men in Blue continue to create opportunities, but unable to score more goals.
24′ minutes – Now, Belgium is trying to break into Indian penalty circle, but good defence by Indian defenders.
22′ minutes – India once again is trying to put pressure into Belgium penalty circle.
20′ minutes – Belgium team is not able to find way through Indian defence today.
17′ minutes – India is playing very well today.
Q2 has started.
15′ minutes – Q1 over. Score IND 1 – 0 BEL.
15′ minutes – Goal!!! Great goal by Akashdeep!
14′ minutes – Belgian team is pressing hard for the early goal, but Indian defence has held up so far.
12′ minutes – Long corner to Belgium.
10′ minutes – Last 5 minutes left in Q1, score line 0-0.
8′ minutes – Fine defence by Indian defenders in response to Belgian attack.
6′ minutes – Green card to Belgian player. He is out for 2 minutes.
4′ minutes – No goals so far.
The Indian men’s team is aiming to reach the semi final spot at the Rio Olympics after a gap of 36 years.
Match has started. Q1 in progress.
National Anthems of both teams has been sung.
Match will start in few minutes.

5th ranked India will play against 6th ranked Belgium in the quarter final match on Sunday. A win will take India to semi finals since the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Roelant Oltmans’ team finished 4th in the Group B points table, on the other hand – Belgium finished on the top of the Group A points table.

Indian coach Roelant Oltmans must also be worried about the injury of SV Sunil and a large number of yellow-cards which Indian players picked up so far.

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QF – INDIA VS BELGIUM HOCKEY RIO 2016 MATCH TIME, DATE AND VENUE

India vs Belgium hockey quarter final match will start at 12.30pm Local Time in brazil and 09.00pm India Time IST on August 14, 2016 – Sunday night. The match will be played at Deodoro Olympic Park, in Rio – Brazil.

INDIA VS Belgium RIO 2016 HOCKEY MATCH LIVE SCORE AND LIVE STREAMING

Live telecast between India vs Belgium Rio hockey match will be available on Star sports 2 in English, Star sports 3 in Hindi TV channels in India. Live streaming between India vs Belgium hockey QF game will be available on starsports.com & hotstar.com.

Apart from this, BBC One, BBC Four & Red Button will also telecast live match in UK. In Belgium, VRT channel will telecast the live match.

INDIA VS Belgium HOCKEY RIO 2016 TEAM / SQUAD

Indian Hockey Squad for Rio 2016 – Goalkeepers: PR Sreejesh (captain) ; Defenders : VR Raghunath, Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Kothajit Singh, Surendar Kumar ; Midfielders : Sardar Singh, Manpreet Singh, SK Uthappa, Danish Mujtaba, Devender Walmiki and Chinglenana Singh; Forwards : Akashdeep Singh, SV Sunil (vice captain), Ramandeep Singh and Nikkin Thimmaiah.

Indian Hockey Team Head Coach : Roelant Oltmans.

Belgium Hockey Squad for Rio 2016 – Goalkeepers: Jeremy Gucassoff ,Vincent Vanasch, Defenders: Arthur Van Doren, John-John Dohmen, Florent van Aubel, Sebastien Docker, Midfielders: Cedrik Chaarlier, Gauthier Boccard, Alexander Hendrickx, Thomas Briels, Felix Denayer, Forwards: Simon Gougnard, Loick Luypaert, Jerome Truyens, Elliot van Strydonck and Tanguy Cosyns.

Belgium Hockey Team Head Coach : Shane McLeod.

INDIA VS Belgium 2016 RIO HOCKEY MATCH PREDICTION

This will be one tough call to predict. Both teams have toe to toe players on par with each other. Win predictor says – Indian team is likely to win this hockey match by 3 – 2.

RIO 2016 INDIA VS Belgium QUARTER FINAL HOCKEY MATCH NEWS

Both teams are backed by top players and Indian captain P. Ravindran Sreejesh will hope his team will perform well and end the 36 year old medal drought. Belgium coach Shane Mcleod will hope his boys will do well in the tournament and try win the trophy. Defensive-discipline would be the key for India. Indian players also looked jaded against Canada in their last league match after playing high intensity games the entire week.

Tom Boon, Tanguy Cosyns & Felix Denayer being the three most key masterminds of Belgian attack, India have to stop them if they want to win this quarter final match.

Set those reminders folks, this will be one tough battle between India vs Belgium hockey match. Stay tuned to playcaper.com for live score and live commentary at 9.00pm IST today!

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