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

India vs Ireland RIO OLYMPICS HOCKEY MATCH PREVIEW

Final score update : India 3 – 2 Ireland (India won). Must Read : Hockey Points Table Rio Olympics 2016

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Live Commentary

Next Match of India will be against Germany on August 8th, 2016 at 7.30pm IST.
India on top of Group B.
60′ minutes – Q4 over. India 3 – 2 Ireland. India wins a match in Olympics after 12 years.
58′ minutes – Ireland are playing in full attacking mode. last 2 minutes will be crucial.
57′ minutes – Another Penalty corner to Ireland and missed!
56′ minutes – Another Penalty corner to Ireland and goal to Ireland!!!
55′ minutes – Last 6 minutes remaining now.
54′ minutes – Penalty corner to Ireland and missed.
50 minutes – Penalty corner to India and Goal by Rupinder Pal Singh, his second goal.
Q4 has started.
Last 15 minutes left now in match.
Q3 over.
45′ minutes – Another Penalty corner to Ireland and Goal to Ireland by John Jermyn!
44′ minutes – India maintain the pressure on Ireland to create opportunities in Q3.
43′ minutes – India is playing hard hockey here, but they have lost lot of chances in this quarter.
40′ minutes – India is just playing around and not letting Ireland to take ball.
36′ minutes – Penalty corner to Ireland and missed.
This is Sardar Singh’s 250th game for the country!
33′ minutes – Ireland are looking aggressive in Q3.
Third quarter has started!
We will back in 10 minutes for Quarter 3. Stay tuned to playcaper.com!
30′ minutes – Q2 over. Half time – India 2 – 0 Ireland.
Goal by Rupinder Pal Singh.
27′ minutes – Penalty corner to India. Goal !!!!
25′ minutes – Another Penalty corner to Ireland and missed.
22′ minutes – No goal to Ireland. Ireland are protesting. Score line 1-0.
21′ minutes – Penalty corner to Ireland and goal to Ireland.
20′ minutes – Both teams are playing offensive straightway hockey now.
17′ minutes – Great attack by Ireland, but good save by Indian defenders.
Second Quarter has started.
First Quarter over – India 1 – 0 Ireland. Goal by VR Raghunath in last minute of Q1.
15′ minutes – Foul by Ireland, penalty corner to India. And Goal!!!!!!!
15′ minutes – Referral taken by India and another penalty corner (second) to India and missed again.
14′ minutes – First Penalty corner to India and missed. Hard luck for India.
12′ minutes – India are putting a lot of pressure on Ireland by their attacking mode, but there is no proper shots at goal so far. The game has been quite scrappy so far
10′ minutes – India is good in attacking today, but Ireland seems to be good in defence today.
7′ minutes – This time attack by Ireland and great save by Indian captain PR Sreejesh. Score line still 0 – 0
5′ minutes – India is playing fast hockey here. India currently have more ball possession as compare to Ireland.
3′ minutes in match – Long corner to India. Good attack by India and great save by Ireland Goalkeeper.
1′ minute – Here we go, first quarter of 15 minutes has started.
National Anthems of both countries in progress.
Match has started.

Line Up

Soon after Argentina vs Netherlands first hockey match from Group B, India will take Ireland in the second match of the Men’s Hockey Tournament of Rio Olympics 2016. India are placed in Group B along with Germany, Argentina, Ireland, Netherlands and Canada.

Click here to follow the complete schedule of the Men’s Rio Hockey 2016!

RIO 2016 India vs Ireland HOCKEY MATCH TIME, DATE AND VENUE

The hockey match between India vs. and Ireland will start at 11.00am Local Time / 7.30pm India Time IST on August 6th 2016 – Saturday evening. The match will be played at Deodoro Olympic Park, in Brazil.

RIO OLYMPICS 2016 India vs Ireland HOCKEY MATCH LIVE SCORE, COMMENTARY, LIVE STREAMING AND TELECAST

Live coverage between Ireland vs India hockey match will be available on Star sports 1, Star sports 2, Star sports 3 and Star sports 4 channels in India. Live streaming of the game will be available on starsports.com. Apart from this, BBC One, BBC Four and Red Button will also telecast live match in UK. In Ireland LFC TV will telecast live match.

India vs Ireland HOCKEY SQUAD AND TEAM

Indian Hockey squad for Rio 2016 – Goalkeepers : PR Sreejesh (captain) ; Defenders : , Surendar Kumar, VR Raghunath, Harmanpreet Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Kothajit Singh ; 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.

Ireland Hockey Squad for Rio 2016 – Goalkeepers : David Harte (captain), David Fitzgerald ; Defenders : Conor Harte, John Jackson, Jonny Bell, Paul Gleghorne, Ronan Gormley ; Midfielders : Eugene Magee, Chris Cargo, John Jermyn, Shane O’Donoghue, Kirk Shimmins, Michael Watt and Michael Robson ; Forwards : Mitch Darling, Kyle Good, Alan Sothern, Peter Caruth, Michael Watt and Tim Cockram.

Ireland Hockey Team Head Coach : Craig Fulton.

India v Ireland HOCKEY MATCH NEWS | RIO OLYMPICS 2016

Ireland are totally unpredictable opponents for India and Roeland Oltmans will hope that men in blue will keep up the good momentum and show charismatic performance. Ireland team earlier had upset big teams like Pakistan and Malaysia before coming to the Rio Olympics.

For Indian hockey team, a lot of things will depend upon their wall and captain P.R Sreejesh and penalty specialist & drag flicker V.R Raghunath. Apart from this experience of Sardar Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh will come handy in the match.

2016 RIO India vS. Ireland HOCKEY MATCH PREDICTION

Going by the form, on paper team and FIH rankings, India are far better team against Ireland, but as we said Ireland are the dark horses of the tournament. Win predictor says India will win their opening match against Ireland by 3-2.

Stay tuned to playcaper.com for live commentary and score updates at 7.30pm India time!

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