China Beats South Korea in Asiad Women's Hockey

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China Beats South Korea in Asiad Women's Hockey

World champions China beat South Korea 2-0 today in a women's hockey group match of the 14th Asian Games.

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China Beats South Korea in Asiad Women's Hockey

World champions China beat South Korea 2-0 today in a women's hockey group match of the 14th Asian Games.

Chinese players were on offense right from the start with their trademark tireless running to push the other side in their own defending area.

They narrowly missed a shot in the second minute through a penalty corner which made defending champions South Koreans sweat.

Their all-out attack was rewarded thirteen minutes into the first half when a penalty corner was carried out by Chinese players before Zhou Wanfeng got around the rushing defense line to score from behind.

China's attacking streak continued in the second half when they created chaos before the other side's goalline in the eighth minutes through two penalty corners.

Four minutes from time, Chinese players found another opportunity and captain Chen Zhaoxia converted the last penalty corner of the match into a goal to leave the host defeated 2-0.

"I am satisfied with my players, who tried their best today," said Kim Chang-back, former assistant coach of South Korean team, who was invited to China in 2000.

"As we need to win more clean goals, the players became too hasty in the shooting, which made them miss a lot of chances."

The rapidly-rising Chinese team were pushed to corner before the match as they lost to Japan 2-1 unexpectedly to stay in third of the four-team group.

Eyeing on the championship, Chinese women had to beat host South Korea on at least three clean goals to ensure the final berth or expect the goal margin, if Japan beat India, is within two.

"We well prepared for the match and were confident in victory. But there were still many things out of my control," said Kim.

The turning point of China-South Korea clash came last year when China beat the latter twice in friendlies with results 1-0 and 6-1 as never before, which filled Chinese players with confidence to claim victory again.

"South Korea have made a lot of changes to their team since last year but remain in world level. We clinched the victory but it was not easy."

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