Asian Champions Trophy 2024: India bags their 5th title after defeating China 1-0

The Indian Men's Hockey Team has defeated China 1-0 in the Asian Champions Trophy 2024 final on Tuesday. This is India's fifth title.

In this match, initially, no one was able to score any goal from both the teams. Then just a few minutes before the end of the match, Jugraj Singh did wonders and scored a goal for India. Because of this goal, the Indian team was successful in winning the Asian Champions Trophy 2024 title. India had won the Asian Champions Trophy title for the fifth time. China had made it to the finals for the first time and had already lost in the first round.

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No goal for the first three quarters

Players from both the teams failed to score goals in the first quarter. India created chances to score goals, but the team was not successful to do it. They also got a penalty corner but the team could not capitalize on it.

There was no goal scored by both the teams in the second quarter as well. In this quarter, China's defense performed well and kept the Indian players in check. In the third quarter, China made several attacks to score, but they failed to reach Indian goalkeeper Krishna Pathak.

Jugraj Singh scored a powerful goal

No goals were scored between the two teams till the third quarter. In such a situation, it seemed that the match would go to penalty shootout. But after this, Jugraj Singh scored an excellent field goal and gave the team a 1-0 lead in the match. This increased the hopes of the Indian hockey team to win. After this, India did not give any chance to China to score a goal. Jugraj's goal in the final proved important in the team winning the Asian Champions Trophy 2024 trophy.

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India's fifth Asian Champions Trophy title 

The Indian hockey team has performed amazingly in the Asian Champions Trophy 2024 and has not lost a single match till the final. The team had defeated South Korea 4-1 in the semi-finals. Harmanpreet Singh (C), Uttam Singh, and Jarmanpreet Singh had scored goals against the Korean team.

This is India's fifth Asian Champions Trophy title. Earlier, India had won the trophy in 2011, 2016, 2018 (joint winners with Pakistan) and 2023. Harmanpreet Singh has received the Player of the Tournament award for his strong performance throughout the tournament.