TOKYO: Dragflicker Rupinder Pal Singh scored a support as the Indian men's hockey conquered a dampening rout in the past match to journey past Spain 3-0 and register its second success at the Tokyo Olympics here on Tuesday.
Drubbed 1-7 by Australia in their last match, India delivered an energetic execution against world No.9 Spain and scored through Simranjeet Singh (fourteenth moment) and Rupinder Pal Singh (fifteenth and 51st) to record an agreeable success in their third Pool A match at the Oi Hockey Stadium.
India, positioned fourth on the planet, had prior crushed New Zealand 3-2 in their initial apparatus. Spain, then again, are yet to enroll a success in the opposition.
Spain drew 1-1 against Argentina prior to losing 3-4 to New Zealand.
The Indians will next play ruling Olympic heroes Argentina on Thursday.
For any group it is consistently hard to recuperate from an assurance breaking misfortune inside a day, yet India looked more coordinated and arranged against Spain on Tuesday.
Manpreet Singh's men played high pressing factor hockey from the word go and overwhelmed the belonging in introductory 10 minutes despite the fact that they neglected to set out any genuine scoring open doors.
In the 10th moment, India verged on breaking the stop yet Simranjeet's avoidance from captain Manpreet Singh cruised over the objective.
Spain gradually and consistently got into the furrow and gotten their first punishment corner in the twelfth moment yet squandered the opportunity.
The Indians mounted number of assaults in the last couple of moments of the game and the ploy bore natural products when Spain's protection was surprised by Amit Rohidas' pass and a plain Simranjeet just tapped the ball into the objective past Quico Cortes.
The objective revived India as they got three consecutive punishment corners in the last moment of the main quarter and from the third set piece Harmanpreet's flick discovered the body of a Spanish safeguard, which brought about a punishment stroke.
Rupinder Pal Singh moved forward and committed no error in multiplying India's lead.
Following by two objectives, the Spaniards squeezed the Indian safeguard hard in the subsequent quarter and the play was for the most part inside the Indian half.
Spain's pressing factor strategies acquired them three punishment corners in the second from last quarter - the last one coming only seconds from the end following a reference - yet the Indian safeguard held firm to keep their lead flawless.
Experienced India goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, who had a horrendous excursion against Australia, had a splendid game as he showed great reflexes to pull off some fine saves.
The delicate Indian guard, known for capitulating in predicaments, some way or another figured out how to absorb the pressing factor set up by the Spaniards.
With a two objective pad, the Indians were very substance in guarding in the fourth and last quarter as Spain kept on applying tenacious pressing factor.
Be that as it may, in the 51st moment India figured out how to track down the net again when they procured a punishment corner, their fourth of the match, from a counter assault and this time Rupinder was beat on track with an incredible low flick to one side of Spanish goalkeeper Cortes.
Down 0-3, Spain didn't surrender and kept on assaulting in numbers while the Indians looked to simply protect.
In the 53rd moment, Spain got three continuous punishment corners yet their dragflicker Pau Quemada neglected to penetrate the Indian back-line drove by Sreejesh.
Spain got another punishment corner in the last minutes of the game however again Sreejesh denied Quemada to help India keep a perfect sheet.