Indian junior males’s hockey workforce beat Korea 4-2 on the FIH Junior Men’s Hockey World Cup. (Twitter)
Ahead of the sport towards Spain, India’s coach C R Kumar stated that the aspect wants to be extra medical and keep away from conceding pointless penalty corners.
Their marketing campaign has began off positively, however India should guard towards complacency after they face Spain of their second Pool C match of the FIH Junior Men’s Hockey World Cup on Thursday.
Vice-captain Araijeet Singh Hundal got here out to be India’s saviour, scoring a hat-trick as India overcame some anxious moments to beat Korea 4-2 of their opener on Tuesday.
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But India’s coach C R Kumar was not too glad with the efficiency and stated his aspect wants to be extra medical and keep away from conceding pointless penalty corners.
India conceded six penalty corners, whereas earned simply two towards Korea.
Video 1/4. “We need to be more clinical in both circles’ says Indian coach CR Kumar after winning 4-2 over continental rival South Korea pic.twitter.com/h5qqCWmEKP— stick2hockey.com (@indianhockey) December 6, 2023
“We are very happy that we got the three points and that’s the positive side. But we have to more clinical in both circles. We conceded two goals in penalty corners which we need to pay attention to,” Kumar stated after the Korea match.
“We gave away too many penalty corners, six in the whole game where we had just two. We need to be more cautious.”.
India are striving to safe their fourth podium end within the occasion after having gained the match twice in 2001 (Hobart) and Lucknow (2016).
The nation had clinched a silver medal method again in 1997 in Milton Keynes, England.
Skipper Uttam Singh and his deputy Hundal are the one two gamers who’ve expertise of the massive occasion, having featured within the final version of the match, the place India completed fourth in Bhubaneswar, dropping to France within the bronze medal play-off match.
The Spaniards, who’ve a bronze medal of their kitty on the 2005 version in Rotterdam, are India’s hardest opponent within the pool, comprising Canada as the opposite aspect.
But going by kind, India will begin as favourites towards Spain on Thursday.
India’s final pool match is towards Canada on Saturday.
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Pool A consists of defending champions Argentina, Australia, Chile, and Malaysia, whereas Pool B has Egypt, France, Germany and South Africa. Pool D is the hardest of the lot as Belgium, Netherlands, New Zealand and Pakistan will be vying for a quarterfinal berth.
The prime two groups from every pool will qualify for the quarterfinals.
The Indians performed an attacking sport from the onset on Tuesday and would look to proceed in the identical vein however their defence could have to be cautious towards counter-assaults which the Koreans used to nice impact to earn penalty corners.
Spain too would be wanting to exploit that weak point towards the Indians.
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