IND vs GER Hockey Semifinal Live: The Indian hockey team has its eyes set on the gold medal in the Paris Olympics. Today, Team India faces the challenge of Germany in the semi-finals. The Indian and German teams are facing each other at the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium. The Indian team would like to make it to the finals by winning this match. Earlier, India defeated Great Britain in the penalty shootout in the quarter-finals. However, India has played against Germany without its key player Amit Rohidas. But despite this, Team India is ready to give a tough fight to Germany.
Statistics show that India has had the upper hand against Germany. So far, India and Germany have faced each other 18 times. The Indian team has defeated Germany 8 times. While Germany has defeated India 4 times. Apart from this, 4 matches between the two teams have been drawn. India has scored 41 goals against Germany, while Germany has scored 37 goals against India. In the Tokyo Olympics, India won the bronze medal by defeating Germany. If we look at the last 6 matches between India and Germany, the Indian team has registered 5 wins, while it has faced defeat in just 1 match.
Germany’s starting XI:
Matthias Müller, Mats Grambusch, Lukas Windfeder, Niklas Wellen, Theis Prinz, Teo Hinrichs, Tom Grambusch, Gonzalo Peillat, Christopher Ruehr, Justus Weigand, Hannes Müller, Malte Hellwig, and Jean Danneberg
India’s starting XI-
Sreejesh PR, Jarmanpreet Singh, Harmanpreet Singh, Sumit, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Abhishek, Sukhjit Singh, Mandeep Singh and Gurjant Singh
Let us tell you that the Indian team defeated England in the quarter finals. Actually, both the teams scored 1-1 goals in the stipulated time. After which the match went into penalty shootout. Indian players displayed a great game in the penalty shootout. Team India defeated England in the penalty shootout. In this way India reached the semi-finals.