India vs Malaysia, Asian Champions Trophy Highlights: IND thrash MAS 8-1

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Harmanpreet appealed for a penalty corner going into the last six seconds and it was turned down. That was the last meaningful action in the match. A good day in the office for India to say the least.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: No goals yet but India have controlled gthe ball for much of this quarter. Abhishek had a shot on goal early in the quarter but the Malaysian goalkeeper saved it. The Malaysians have otherwise shown great character to dig into their defence and prevent India from having their way in front of goal.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Well these are the kind of scorelines that are expected when India face a team ranked 13th in the world. Malaysia did very well in the last two matches they played against India but today, they have been taken apart with aplomb by the Olympic bronze medallists. Into the last 15 mins then

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: PC for India, Jugraj with the flick but it is blocked. Vivek keeps the ball in attack though, passes it to Uttam on the left. He has plenty of space to lineup his shot and smash the ball into the back of the board.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Abhishek steals the ball and passes it to Uttam who gets it to Hundal. He loses the ball but it comes back to him seconds later and he scores his second of the day.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Akimullah hasn't done much today but he gets one goal back for Malaysia.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: There is the hat-trick and it has come due to a blunder from the Malaysian goalkeeper.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Right, can Malaysia get anything from this match or will India keep pulling away? We will find out soon enough.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: This was a better quarter from Malaysia but their poor defence has been their undoing. India, on the other hand, have been just clinical. Their defence has been airtight. There were a couple of moments when Malaysia got the ball back too quickly after India cleared it, for which Harmanpreet gave his attackers an earful of the choicest of words one gets to hear in the northern part of India. Apart from that, though, India have been almost flawless.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Malaysia haven't been bad on the ball. What is reflected in the scoreline pretty accurately, though, is how poor they have been defensively. What is also reflected pretty well is how good India's defence have been because Malaysia have put in some good moves together in attack.

India 5-0 Malaysia in 2nd quarter

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Lightening fast counter from India and Rajkumar gets his second goal at the end of it. The ball moves from left to right, Rajkumar turns around and lets go of the shot. It doesn't have too much venom but the Malaysian keeper was completely wrong-footed and the ball goes in.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: India win a couple of penalty corners and Harmanpreet Singh finally converts one. To make matters worse for Malaysia, they lost two players to injury while defending the first of those PCs.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: They haven't allowed India to take control the way they did in the first quarter. Malaysia win a penalty corner but Syde Cholan drag flicks it straight into Karkera's abdomen.

19 mins gone, India 3-0 Malaysia

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Krishan Bahadur Pathak was in goal for India in the first quarter and Suraj Karkera is below the bar for this one.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Once again, India utterly dominant very early on and they have given Malaysia a real mountain to climb in the first 10 minutes itself.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Malaysia advance but Amit Rohidas ensures that he wins the ball back for India just before they reach the circle. Malaysia win the ball multiple times outside the circle but couldn't get a shot away.

India 3-0 Malaysia in the 12th minute

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: India are running riot. They win a penalty corner, Harmanpreet is there but it is Jugraj who takes the flick. The ball is lasered past the Malaysian goalkeeper. The Malaysians have hardly managed to see the ball at all and they are already three goals down.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: Well this is just as stunning as that first goal. Hundal has the ball at the most extreme of angle on the left inside the circle. He smashes it in any way and he had placed it so well that the Malaysian goalkeeper stood no chance.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: India have scored within the first five minutes of a match again and this time it is Rakjumar Pal who has given them the lead with some sensational stick work.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: India are in their traditional blue while Malaysia are clad in yellow shirts with black sleeves and black shorts. Quite similar to Borussia Dortmund's iconic colours.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: All right then, both the teams are standing adjacent to each other in the middle with the match officials. First comes Malaysia's national anthem and then India's.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: The first edition of the men's Asian Champions Trophy was held in 2011 in Ordos, China. India won that after beating Pakistan in a shootout. Pakistsan then won the next two editions in 2012 and 2013, beating India and Japan respectively in the finals, before India beat them 3-2 in the final of the 2016 tournament. India and Pakistan were declared joint winners in 2018 after the final was washed out by rain in Muscat Oman. South Korea then beat Japan in 2021 which was the first final without India or Pakistan. India then took back the title by beating Malaysia in 2023 which marked the first time Pakistan failed to finish in the top four.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: The first match of the day has come to an end and Pakistan have beaten Japan 2-1 in it. This means they have temporarily jumped up to second spot behind India.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: In case you had missed India's previous match against Japan then fret not, we have you covered.

India vs Malaysia Live Score, Asian Champions Trophy 2024: There are three matches everyday. India's is the second one today. The first is underway between Pakistan and Japan. Pakistan are leading 2-1 in the fourth quarter. China later play Korea starting at 3.30pm IST after India's match against Malaysia.