As munna mentioned, it is mix of main team & youth players... As per report, India conceded 9 or 10 penalty corners. Seems like Germany couldn't able to convert any of them..
But Germany is in transition & no more a super power. As Ronny mentioned, we have defeated Germany & Netherlands consistently in last 2 years.. For India, main nemesis is Belgium. We struggled to defeat Belgium, followed by Australia.
As it was reported.. It was pretty much Germany's full team,close enough(entire full strength teams never play these friendlies)..
Moreover, 9-10 penalty corners depend on whether they were from 9-10 separate attacks or being repeated from the same attack.
Regarding our team, we are playing consistent even games with every team now-a -days. However, I feel that Belgium, Netherlands and Australia are slightly better then us,that is suppose if we play 5 games,the chances of them winning more then us is high whereas with every other team, we have more chances of winning more games..
since you guys kept mentioning that India has been struggling to beat Australia and Belgium I looked up the results of all the last few games. The only games that we lost to Australia were by a one goal margin which means the game could have gone either ways. We also beat them on an equal number of times. In last 3 official games our record against Belgium is W-D-L not exactly in sequence though. I would say Belgium and Australia must be saying that India is difficult to beat these days
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As munna mentioned, it is mix of main team & youth players... As per report, India conceded 9 or 10 penalty corners. Seems like Germany couldn't able to convert any of them..
But Germany is in transition & no more a super power. As Ronny mentioned, we have defeated Germany & Netherlands consistently in last 2 years.. For India, main nemesis is Belgium. We struggled to defeat Belgium, followed by Australia.
Moreover, 9-10 penalty corners depend on whether they were from 9-10 separate attacks or being repeated from the same attack.
Regarding our team, we are playing consistent even games with every team now-a -days. However, I feel that Belgium, Netherlands and Australia are slightly better then us,that is suppose if we play 5 games,the chances of them winning more then us is high whereas with every other team, we have more chances of winning more games..