Women’s Hockey Japan vs New Zealand Full Match Highlights: Tokyo Olympics 2020
Japan vs New Zealand Full Match Highlights – In this match of Women’s Hockey of Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Japan and New Zealand teams were face to face. This match was being played in Oi Hockey Stadium North Pitch. This stadium is located in Shinagawa City, Yashio, Japan.
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Here are the head to head results between Japan and New Zealand women at the #Olympics #Tokyo2020 #HockeyInvites
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First Half Japan 1-2 New Zealand
At the beginning of the first half, Japan played a good game. Due to which Shihori scored the first goal in this game for her team in the 18th minute. And gave Japan a 1-0 lead in this game.
Q2🇯🇵1-0🇳🇿
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GOAL! Japan take the lead thanks to a penalty corner drag flick from Shihori Oikawa, finding the bottom left corner of the goal. How will the Black Sticks respond?
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Soon the New Zealand team also made a comeback. In the 26th minute, Olivia converted a penalty corner and brought her team to a 1-1 draw.
Q2🇯🇵1-1🇳🇿
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GOAL! The Black Sticks pull level! The goal comes from a familiar source, with Olivia Merry smashing a low penalty corner to the right of the Japanese shot-stopper. All square!
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The first half was about to end that in the 29th minute, Hope converted a goal from Penalty corner to give her team a 2-1 lead in this half.
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Second Half Japan 1-2 New Zealand
Japan got off to a strong start in the second half. Japan continued to attack New Zealand’s goal continuously. Because of this, there were many occasions at the beginning of this half where there was a possibility of a goal, but strong New Zealand’s defense did not allow this to happen.
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This half ended without any goal scored. And New Zealand won this match.
Women’s Hockey Japan vs New Zealand Full Match Highlights: Tokyo Olympics 2020
New Zealand won this match by defeating Japan by 2-1.