What a game!! The passing and trapping game has improved so so much in last 6-7 months! Use of flanks as well! Malaysia though were shocked having conceded inside 10 minutes and never really recovered from there except for last quarter where they scored 1. Overall a very good prep for final against Mighty Aussies.
India team was no match to the Australians. We survived 25 minutes without goal but were very tired by that time. Australia team has amazing capability of keeping possession and rotating ball from back to forward. We wasted 4 Penalty Corners with poor execution. Only Mandeep Singh matched them with brave forays. Our young defensive players committed many mistakes-not clearing the ball and back passes ruined India play today. Jasjeet, Surender, Hermanpreet were very ordinary. Even Akash Chikate0one goal slipped between his elbow and goal post-some school boy error in goalkeeping. Sardar Singh, after so many years, still struggling to push ball for Penalty corners. Either push is feeble-opposition players come and counter the PC. Or the ball is pushed so fast that Manpreet struggled to stop it.
Guys,I can talk at length w.r.t Hockey.I can give details abt the team performance, positives,negatives,individual performances, where we stand,possible team for Rio etc if you guys are interested and if you like my views.Since,this is mainly a Football community I am not sure,how much interest you guys have w.r.t Hockey.So,if you guys are interested in discussing about Hockey ( Our National Sport) then plz let me know,I will share my opinion.What I don't want is that I write in detail and no one is interested in it.So,plz let me know.
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Overall a very good prep for final against Mighty Aussies.