{"id":73653,"date":"2019-11-02T12:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T12:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73653"},"modified":"2019-11-02T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T12:10:40","slug":"mandeep-saves-the-day-against-gritty-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/mandeep-saves-the-day-against-gritty-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandeep saves the day against gritty Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mandeep Singh struck twice as a below-par India struggled past minnows Russia 4-2 in the first leg of the two-match FIH Olympic Qualifier. Mandeep (24th, 53rd) scored two field goals while Harmanpreet Singh and SV Sunil also hit the target for the hosts. World No. 22 Russia dished out a fighting performance to surprise the hosts and kept the difference of goals to just two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World No.5 India still can&#8217;t breathe easy as Russia are capable of overturning hosts\u2019two-goal lead in the second and final match tomorrow. The aggregate winner at the end of the two-match qualifier will seal its place for the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia goalkeeper Marat Gafarov was called into action by India captain Manpreet Singh in the sixth minute, and Manpreet&#8217;s first shot was saved but he was fouled as he attempted a follow-up. The hosts made good use of the video referral to get a penalty stroke and Harmanpreet made no mistake. Two minutes into the second quarter, Russia equalised through a field strike from Andrey Kuraev, who after receiving an overhead pass, cut across the top of the circle before guiding his shot into the bottom-left corner past India goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandeep Singh struck twice as a below-par India struggled past minnows Russia 4-2 in the first leg of the two-match FIH Olympic Qualifier. Mandeep (24th, 53rd) scored two field goals while Harmanpreet Singh and SV Sunil also hit the target for the hosts. World No. 22 Russia dished out a fighting performance to surprise the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73655,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73653\/revisions\/73655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}