The Indian team has started the Hockey World Cup with a win. On Friday, the first day of the tournament, India beat Spain 2-0 with a brilliant performance. In this Pool D match, the Indian team kept the pressure on Spain from the very beginning. In particular, the Indian defenders put up a stellar performance, which resulted in Spain never finding their way past the Indian goal post in the match. This win has put the Indian team on top of their pool along with England. England, while playing the first match of the World Cup today, defeated their neighboring country Wales by a big margin of 5-0.

India got the lead in the first quarter

In this match, Amit Rohidas scored the first goal for India in the first quarter. This goal was scored in the 12th minute of the game with the help of a penalty corner. After this, there were no more goals scored in this part of the game. After the first quarter, skipper Harmanpreet Singh's team was leading 1-0.

India doubled the lead in the second quarter

Like the first quarter, the pace of the game was slow for the first 10 minutes in the second as well. Although the Spaniard did make a good move during this period and came very close to scoring a field goal, it was thwarted by experienced Indian star goalkeeper Sreejesh with his alertness. He sent the shot coming towards the goal post of the Spanish player with a stick. Hardik Singh accelerated this pace. In the 26th minute of the game, he scored a classical field goal to give India a 2-0 lead.

Indian defense ensured easy victory for India

There was no goal in the third quarter and the Indian team's 2-0 lead remained intact. But in the last quarter of 15 minutes, Spain got back to back 2 penalty corners. On both these occasions, the Indian defense line thwarted the Spanish effort by acting promptly. India has entered the World Cup this time to end its 48-year title drought. The current Olympic bronze medalist and Commonwealth Games silver medalist is expected to win the second title in history this time.