BHUBANESWAR: Indian hockey team inspired with their quick counterattacking play of their Hockey World League Final opener in opposition to protecting champions Australia on Friday. In the primary quarter at the Kalinga Stadium, especially in the opening exchanges, India were all over the place the Australian defenders, repeatedly putting their custodian Tyler Lovell to stern test.
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Those were slightly simple possibilities and had the team managed to transform them, the end result can have been different.
"We got several chances to score throughout contest. We will focus on converting them into goals in coming matches," skipper Manpreet Singh, who dazzled in his 200th appearance for India on Friday observed.
After coming with regards to breaking the impasse in the opening 10 minutes, it used to be Mandeep Singh who put the home team in the lead that lasted nearly a minute ahead of Australia equalised via penalty corner. For India, their age-old drawback of failure to transform penalty corners got here to hang-out them again as they wasted their all 4 penalty corners. Their opponents fared a tad higher scoring certainly one of their six penalty corners.
Coach Sjoerd Marijne echoed Manpreet's thoughts while praising his defenders. "The defence starts with the strikers and they did well. It was an improved performance (from Asia Cup). We did really well as a team but need to improve in few areas. Few penalty corners were easy and we need to convert them," he mentioned after the match.
Australia were rattled early on, forcing their captain early on to collect his troops and calm their nerves in opposition to a charging Indian team and a partisan house crowd. "It was just about refocusing. We've got a lot of guys with not much experience. When you are playing in front of such a huge crowd, sometimes things can get on the top of you. So, it was really important for me to refocus the group. Our quality wasn't good enough and when you let that down at the start of a match you can pay for it. One goal in international hockey is nothing," Australia captain Mark Knowles mentioned.
Australia coach Colin Batch defended his quite inexperienced aspect announcing, "It was a great experience for them. They made some errors and they did some really good things. We were expecting that to happen. Not everyone has a dream debut. The noise and to play an international match in India, I think they handed it well."
READ ALSO: India, Australia play out 1-1 draw
Those were slightly simple possibilities and had the team managed to transform them, the end result can have been different.
"We got several chances to score throughout contest. We will focus on converting them into goals in coming matches," skipper Manpreet Singh, who dazzled in his 200th appearance for India on Friday observed.
After coming with regards to breaking the impasse in the opening 10 minutes, it used to be Mandeep Singh who put the home team in the lead that lasted nearly a minute ahead of Australia equalised via penalty corner. For India, their age-old drawback of failure to transform penalty corners got here to hang-out them again as they wasted their all 4 penalty corners. Their opponents fared a tad higher scoring certainly one of their six penalty corners.
Coach Sjoerd Marijne echoed Manpreet's thoughts while praising his defenders. "The defence starts with the strikers and they did well. It was an improved performance (from Asia Cup). We did really well as a team but need to improve in few areas. Few penalty corners were easy and we need to convert them," he mentioned after the match.
Australia were rattled early on, forcing their captain early on to collect his troops and calm their nerves in opposition to a charging Indian team and a partisan house crowd. "It was just about refocusing. We've got a lot of guys with not much experience. When you are playing in front of such a huge crowd, sometimes things can get on the top of you. So, it was really important for me to refocus the group. Our quality wasn't good enough and when you let that down at the start of a match you can pay for it. One goal in international hockey is nothing," Australia captain Mark Knowles mentioned.
Australia coach Colin Batch defended his quite inexperienced aspect announcing, "It was a great experience for them. They made some errors and they did some really good things. We were expecting that to happen. Not everyone has a dream debut. The noise and to play an international match in India, I think they handed it well."
Need to focus on converting chances: Manpreet Singh
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