India vs Japan Hockey Highlights, Women's Asian Champions Trophy Final: IND 4-0 JPN at FT, Vandana Katariya, Lalremsiami and Neha score in final

India vs Japan Hockey Live coverage ends

That's all from our Live coverage of the Women's Asian Champions Trophy final as they thrash Asian heavyweights Japan 4-0 in the final. Sangita Kumari, Lalremsiami, Neha and Vandana Katariya find the net in what was a complete domination by the hosts in front of a packed Ranchi crowd. We fold our coverage on that, keep following myKhel for all the news from the world of sports, good bye for now!

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Women's Asian Champions Trophy Awards

JSW Rising start of the tournament: Sangita Kumari (6 goals in 7 matches)

India vs Japan Hockey Live

Don't go anywhere as it's time for the presentation ceremony!

India win Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2023

Seven matches and seven wins! Janneke Schopman's attacking hockey suits the best of Indian hockey players as they count a major success after bagging the bronze medal at the Asian Games last month! India finish the season with 28 goals!

India are champions!

The hooter goes off! India women's hockey team beat Japan 4-0 to win the Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2023! A famous triumph for Indian women's hockey!

GOOOOOALLLL!

60' Vandana Katariya puts herself in the scoresheet with a late goal! The goal comes from open play as Lalremsiami sets her up with a full-stretched diving pass inside the circle! Vandana just had to push the ball into the goal for an easy finish! IND 4-0 JPN

GOOOOOALLLLLLL!

57' Lalremsiami makes it 3-0! She made the injection and joined the play quickly! A loose ball fell to her and she scooped it into the goal. IND 3-0 JPN

India vs Japan

56' India win a penalty corner as a Japanese defender purposely pushed the ball out of play!

India vs Japan

56' Circle penetration for Japan from the left and Mai finds her in space to shoot and she does but the referee signals there was a foul by the Japanese player. Mai is not impressed and laughs off the decision. IND 2-0 JPN

Savita Punia makes a stunning save!

52' What a save by the Indian captain as Savita Punia stretches her left foot to save a low shot by Urata Kana. Japan miss the chance to bring themselves back in the game! IND 2-0 JPN

Penalty stroke for Japan!

52' Japan wins a penalty stroke as the last Indian defender on the goal line handed the ball!

India vs Japan

52' Japanese captain Yuri Nagai wins a PC for Japan! Miu Suzuki to provide the injection!

India vs Japan Hockey Live

50' India are seeing most of the possession at the moment but with a drop in intensity as they probably will look to take this score to the full-time! 25 goals in seven games by India in the Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2023 so far! Clearly the favourite to win the final at the moment

Correction!

48' The goal is credited to Neha as Grace's shot was deflected by Neha into the goal. In any case, it's goal to India! IND 2-0 JPN

GOOOOALLLLL!

47' Deep Grace Ekka doubles the lead! Brilliant PC move after back-to-back three PCs for India. Navneet fakes a shot and sets up Deep Grace Ekka following Salima's injection! Grace fired it into the net with some power! IND 2-0 JPN

The decision stands!

46' Salima Tete will inject the PC as the onfield decision stand after the review!

Fourth Quarter begins!

46' The fourth and final quarter begins! Japan have 15 minutes to take the game into the shootout but it's India, who win their first penalty corner as Deepika makes a run from the left and is fouled upon circle penetration. Japanese are not impressed with the decision and have asked for a video referral on the on-field call! IND 1-0 JPN

India 1-0 Japan

Players are back on the field as the fourth quarter is set to start!

IND vs JPN Live

45' Vandana Katariya makes a charged run from the left and beats two defenders as well but her pass into the box was intercepted! The hooter goes off right after to signal the end of third quarter. India 1-0 Japan after Q3

India vs Japan Live Updates

43' Monika makes overlapping run from the right and sends in a ball inside the circle but none of Sangita or Salima tracks it as the chance goes begging!

Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2023 Live Updates

41' No clear-cut opportunities in the third quarter yet for either side as attacks from both sides are foiled by some robust defending time and again! However, India can't afford to relax as Japan punished China from a similar position in the semifinal yesterday. IND 1-0 JPN

End to end play!

37' Vandana Kataria counters from the right following an attack by Japan's Mai making a solo run from the same side but none of them were allowed to set up their teammate inside the circle. IND 1-0 JPN

India vs Japan Live

35' India are back to full strength with Navneet back on the field but Japan are the one dominating the passage of play as they have increased intensity to stay in the final! However, Indian defense is calm and cool to deal with any danger at the moment.

India vs Japan

33' Navneet Kaur sees a green card for a stick tackle on an opponent. She will be out of the game for the next two minutes. Will Japan make India pay for going down to 10 players? IND 1-0 JPN

Sangita almost doubles lead!

32' India comes dangerously close to scoring their second goal as Lalremsiami sets up Sangita in front of the goal! But a Japanese defender makes a goal-line save to keep her side in the match. IND 1-0 JPN

3rd quarter begins!

31' The sides have been changed and India attack early in the third quarter with the intention to increase their lead in the final!

India vs Japan Half Time Analysis

India dominate the first two quarters with 11 circle penetrations while Japan made just three. Japan, however, have managed five shots in comparison to India's six and are capable of levelling the score. Would have been the case if their second quarter goal wasn't disallowed following a brilliant solo effort by Miu Suzuki.

For India, forward Sangita Kumari continues her goal-scoring form in the big game with her six goals of the tournament and requires one more goal to match leader China's Jiaqi Zhong! IND 1-0 JPN at HT

2nd quarter ends!

Japan end the second quarter with their third circle penetration following a counter from the right! They managed to attack the goal as well but the Indian defense crowded the circle well for the Japanese to shoot at the goal from cramped spaces. It's IND 1-0 JPN at Half Time

India vs Japan

28' Fabulous work by the Japanese defense today, who are not letting India make the most out of their circle penetration. Importantly, they haven't conceded a penalty corner yet as well

India vs Japan Hockey Live

26' What a show by Savita Punia! Back-to-back three PCs for Japan and Savita saves two of them while the other sees the visitors' commit an error! Kudos to Indian defenders, who put their bodies on the line as well to defend the 1-goal lead. IND 1-0 JPN