Last Updated: January 23, 2023, 08:00 IST
Indian coach Graham Reid and skipper Harmanpreet Singh (IANS photograph)
Indian hockey workforce misplaced to New Zealand 4-5 on penalties to crash out of the race for quarterfinals of FIH World Cup 2023
Graham Reid, chief coach of the Indian males’s hockey workforce, on Sunday picked poor penalty nook conversion, didn’t capitalise on circle penetrations, permitting straightforward turnovers and failure to take advantage of their alternatives as the explanations for his workforce permitting New Zealand to make a comeback and maintain them 3-3 and overcome the hosts in sudden demise shoot-out within the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Crossover match.
India led 2-0 in the direction of the tip of the primary half after which 3-1 within the third quarter however made fundamental errors and allowed the Black Sticks to battle again and stage scores 3-3 and take the matter right into a shoot-out.
The Indians earned 11 penalty corners however may rating off solely two. They had 18 circle entries however may handle solely 12 photographs on the objective.
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“Our nook conversion (was the main purpose), however I can even say we had a variety of circle penetrations however we couldn’t convert these probabilities. We scored three objectives immediately and 3-4 or objectives often must be sufficient. In defence we wanted to be tidier,” Reid said in the post-match press conference after his team lost 3-3 (4-5) to New Zealand.
Reid said poor penalty corner conversion, despite the presence of Harmanpreet Singh, who has been rated the Player of the Year twice, was a major letdown for India.
“It is a factor but not the only factor, we still created enough chances tonight to win The problem tonight was that every time we won the ball, we gave it back to them, No, not every time but certainly too many times and you know that is the telling factor for the second or was it the third goal. We turned over the ball but gave it back straight away and lost the opportunity. At this level, you can’t do that,” mentioned Reid.
It was additionally stunning that the Indians did so poorly on this facet of the sport because the short-corner consultants had attended a particular camp for drag-flickers by Dutch knowledgeable Bram Lomans simply earlier than the World Cup.
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Skipper Harmanpreet Singh mentioned it was not the case of too many coaches spoiling the broth.
Coach Reid mentioned the workforce didn’t succumb to an excessive amount of stress of the excessive expectations as they went into the World Cup with excessive hopes of ending a 47-year drought for medals after doing the identical on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
“Look, stress and expectations will at all times be there, We made some errors which we usually don’t do. so these are the kind of issues that we have to analyse and speak about and give you an answer for our subsequent sport,” he mentioned.
“Tonight, it was about consistency and in the last quarter we let ourselves down as we threw the ball down and allowed them to come back. There is a period when every time faces this issue of converting circle penetration). We probably have to go back to the drawing board and work out the solutions,” he added.
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