Match time, form: China vs India – Asian Champions Trophy 2024 hockey final

Who: China vs India
What: Asian Champions Trophy final
When: Tuesday, September 17, 6pm (10:00 GMT)
Where: Moqi Hockey Training Base, Hulunbuir, China
How to follow: Al Jazeera’s unrecorded substance sum begins astatine 07:00 GMT

India volition look to triumph a record-extending 5th Asian Champions Trophy rubric erstwhile they instrumentality connected hosts China successful the hockey tournament’s last connected Tuesday.

The men successful bluish brushed speech South Korea successful a 4-1 triumph successful the 2nd semifinal connected Monday, portion the hosts stunned three-time champions Pakistan 2-0 successful a punishment shootout aft the crippled ended 1-1 successful mean time.

India were pre-tournament favourites for the rubric pursuing their podium decorativeness astatine the Paris Olympics 2024, wherever they bushed Spain to container bronze.

However, China’s triumph implicit erstwhile hockey powerhouse Pakistan came arsenic a astonishment arsenic the Green Shirts were near to rue a drawstring of missed opportunities successful beforehand of goal.

First-time finalists China volition relish their chances successful beforehand of a partisan location assemblage successful the distant northeastern metropolis of Hulunbuir, which lies successful the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. They volition anticipation that Wang Caiyu, their formidable goalkeeper who blocked respective Pakistani attempts connected extremity successful the semifinal, volition beryllium capable to thwart attacks from the Indian guardant line.

Should Wang – besides known arsenic the Great Wall of China – supply a beardown defence, China’s onslaught could transportation the momentum into the Indian fractional and marque beingness hard for India’s ain leader successful the goal, Krishan Bahadur Pathak.

India volition not beryllium abbreviated connected assurance aft their earlier triumph implicit China successful the round-robin signifier and a cleanable grounds successful the tournament.

Team India storms into the last with a convincing 4-1 triumph implicit Korea powered by immoderate crisp finishing from Harmanpreet, Jarmanpreet, and Uttam Singh.

Up next, we look hosts China 🇨🇳 successful the expansive last time successful the Mens Asian Champions Trophy 2024

Lets triumph this one🏆💪🏻… pic.twitter.com/blZ8BxNYX7

— Hockey India (@TheHockeyIndia) September 16, 2024

India vs China: Head-to-head record

Matches: 23

Won by India: 17

Won by China: 3

Draws: 3

Form guide: China

China person had a mixed container of results during their tally astatine the tournament, starting with a 3-0 thrashing astatine the hands of their opponents successful the final. They bounced backmost to bushed Malaysia 4-2 and entered the last connected the backmost of a daze triumph implicit Pakistan.

China’s past 5 results

• China 1(2)-1(0) Pakistan
• China 2-0 Japan
• China 1-5 Pakistan
• China 2-3 South Korea
• China 0-3 India

China’s champion effect astatine Asian Champions Trophy

Fourth place: 2012 and 2013

Form guide: India

India spell into the last riding connected the question of their Olympic medal and a 100 percent grounds astatine the Champions Trophy. They volition beryllium the outright favourites for the title.

India’s past 5 results

• India 4-1 South Korea
• India 3-1 South Korea
• India 8-1 Malaysia
• India 5-1 Japan
• India 3-0 China

India’s champion effect astatine Asian Champions Trophy

Champions: 2011, 2016, 2018 (joint with Pakistan), 2023

Field hockey is an 11-a-side squad crippled played connected a blue-coloured artificial turf [File: Tingshu Wang/Reuters]

What’s tract hockey and however is it played?

Simply known arsenic hockey, the 11-a-side athletics is played connected a synthetic transportation – besides known arsenic Astroturf – betwixt 2 teams.

All 11 players determination a hockey shot with a hockey instrumentality with the purpose of slotting it into the backmost of the opposition’s goal. The squad scoring much goals wins.

Hockey sticks are made from a substance of fibreglass, c and aramid and see a agelong grip that leads to a curved caput that is utilized for manoeuvring the shot connected the tract and hitting it into the goal.

The planetary governing assemblage of the athletics is the International Hockey Federation (FIH).

How is simply a extremity scored successful hockey?

A extremity tin lone beryllium scored from wrong the striking ellipse and tin travel from nonstop play, punishment corners oregon punishment strokes.

How agelong is simply a hockey match?

A hockey lucifer is played implicit 60 minutes, divided into 4 quarters of 15 minutes each. Half-time is taken betwixt the 2nd and 3rd quarters and lasts 15 minutes. Two-minute breaks are taken aft the archetypal and 3rd quarters.

Stoppages successful play owed to injuries oregon the shot being retired of play pb to the halting of the clock, which usually makes the crippled past longer than the stipulated 60 minutes.

Up until 2019, the crippled was played crossed 2 halves of 35 minutes each with a five-minute interruption successful between.

What’s the Asian Champions Trophy tournament?

A continental hockey tourney that began successful 2011, this contention is played amongst the six champion teams successful the region.

All teams look each different successful a round-robin format and the apical 4 suffice for the semifinals.

Which teams are playing successful the Asian Champions 2024?

• China
• India
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Pakistan
• South Korea

Who are the past winners of the Asian Champions Trophy?

• 2011: India
• 2012: Pakistan
• 2013: Pakistan
• 2016: India
• 2018: India and Pakistan (joint winners)
• 2021: South Korea
• 2023: India

India squad

Harmanpreet Singh (captain), Krishan Bahadur Pathak, Suraj Karkera, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas, Jugraj Singh, Sanjay, Sumit, Rajkumar Pal, Nilakanta Sharma, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Manpreet Singh, Mohammed Raheel Mouseen, Abhishek, Sukhjeet Singh, Araijeet Singh Hundal, Uttam Singh, Gurjot Singh

China squad

Qijun Chen (captain), Weibao Ao, Yang Ao, Jienming Chao, Benhai Chen, Chongcong Chen, Jingwen Deng, Kaimin E, Wenhui E, Jiesheng Gao, Yonghua He, Ziyang Huang, Changliang Lin, Yuanlin Lu, Dihao Meng, Nan Meng, Caiyu Wang, Weihao Wang, Taozhu Zhang, Xiaotong Zhu