January 1 CRY
ARGENTINO. Lucas Vila, Rossi Callioni and celebrate one of the goals. Argentina number 12 was the best of the field. (AP)
Mission accomplished and a little more. The Argentine men's hockey finished 7 th World Cup to be played in India, beating the host team 4-2, with goals from Lucas Argento, Lucas Vila and Facundo Callioni. For the Indian team had won the tie Sinhg transitional penalty in the second half and pulled a short corner. Thus, men led by Pablo Lombi met with the mission of getting into the top eight, something that had been proposed before leaving for New Delhi.
Although India pushed hard during the first 35 minutes and it seemed that his goal was only a matter of time, it was Argentina who hit the mark, on 28 minutes - with a goal from Tomas Argento. After the break Argento could have scored Argentina's second goal five complement, but three minutes later he found himself with a penalty for an offense against Matias Vila on Vikram Pillay, which found the video ref. Sandeep Singh was charged with the death penalty and made no mistake. But the 1-1 came in handy to those run by Lombi who attacked against local arch and then won it 2-1 with a goal from Lucas Vila, short. And just two minutes later Vila himself stretched the score to cap a great play by Mario Almada.
The next meeting resolved the Argentine attack and disarmed India could not prevent Facundo Callioni scored the fourth and left the hosts have to score three goals in 24 minutes to force overtime. India managed to recover and adjusted the scoring with a shot from the play SHIVENDRA Singh fixed slipped between the legs of goalkeeper Juan Espinosa.
The final whistle confirmed the seventh post for Argentina, which improves the tenth position of the last World Monchengladbag 2006, and eighth place for India that, despite also improve the penultimate four years ago, matched the worst home team classification at the World Cup in 2002 they occupied Malaysia and Argentina in 1978
