Vic,
"opening match with strong conteders"...hahahahaha Dear! are you talking about hockey of 40 yrs back??
NOW, neither pakistan nor India are any more conteders, I bet they both will not reach Semis even!!
but I find some people here feel as if defeating India means one and only absolute "feel-good" factor for them and vice-versa.
If I refer, some old threads, use of tags are very offensive and useless!!
for me, it was a damn an ordinary match by two ordinary teams; Media hypes them for 'obvious' reason.