Pakistan to face India in playoffs

Bruised and battered after their shocking ouster from the title race, an inconsistent India would look for solace when they take on arch-rivals Pakistan in a 5th-8th classification match of the Hockey World League Semi-Final here on Saturday.

Pakistan, which exhibited poor run in the ongoing league suffering from three back-to-back defeats in the league matches first Holland beat them 4-0 with Canada thrashing them 6-0 thrashing, followed by loss to India 7-1.

When will the India vs Pakistan Hockey World League match be played? Now, they take on Pakistan for the fifth-sixth place match while the loser drops to play the seventh-eighth place match. SV Sunil rides strong challenges and passes the ball across the face of goal and Ramandeep Singh dives to deflect the ball into the goal. The third goal of the match on Saturday by Akashdeep Singh, however, brought that fiery fisted cheer from Oltmans. Pardeep Mor with a hammering drive into the goal and it looks like Talwinder with the final touch at the near post. India are 2-0 up!

Pakistan's Umair shown yellow card for a ugly tackle.

Akashdeep had a chance to double the lead four minutes later but it went abegging. But he tried to log the ball over the keeper and missed the goal by a whisker. Penalty corner. India have been 4/15 on PC's this tournament and that record gets worse. But Indian cannot convert from it as it is stopped by a defender befoer Harmanpreet can get a shot away. In the 9th minute, Ramandeep Singh gave the first breakthrough to the Indian team after scoring the first goal of the game.

Both sets of players are coming out for their respective national anthems.

In the last quarter, India continued to attack while Pakistan were still in search of another success in this game.