Skipper Harmanpreet Singh’s sudden dip in type is a matter of concern, Hockey India President Dilip Tirkey stated on Monday, although lack of penalty nook targets was not the one cause for the house crew’s shock and untimely exit from the FIH Men’s World Cup. . Here.
India misplaced to New Zealand within the penalty shootout of their crossover match on Sunday after the 2 sides had been tied 3-3 on the finish of regulation time.
Tirkey stated it was too early to speak about altering the coach and captain because the World Cup is on and India need to play within the ninth to sixteenth classification matches.
“Harmanpreet was doing very effectively within the FIH Pro League matches and within the (five-match) Australia collection simply earlier than the World Cup. We had excessive hopes from him however his sudden poor type within the World Cup is a matter of concern.
“There are some budding drag-flickers within the crew as effectively. Drag-flickers are essential in trendy hockey and we’ll plan accordingly.
“A year and a half ago, we won bronze at the Olympics and then not reaching the quarterfinals of the World Cup is very disappointing.” Harmanpreet took most of India’s 26 penalty corners in 4 matches, of which the crew scored simply 5.
Harmanpreet herself transformed solely two PCs.
“Ultimately, as I said earlier, if we don’t score more goals from penalty corners then we will face problems and that happened yesterday,” stated Tirkey, a former India captain who performed 412 worldwide matches.
He stated, ‘The robust facet of the crew was to attain from the penalty nook. We had excessive hopes from Harmanpreet. But his flicks weren’t turning into targets and we noticed it from the primary match until the final. Not scoring from PC has harm the crew so much.” Tirkey stated that India had gifted the crossover match to New Zealand from a win-win scenario.
We obtained sufficient probabilities to win the match towards New Zealand. We had been main 3-1 and we may have carried out higher within the defensive construction. After that, each our goalkeepers did very effectively within the shootout and gave us probabilities to win the match. But we missed probabilities within the shootout as effectively and misplaced the match.
He stated, ‘someplace we’ve got given the gained match to them’.
Harmanpreet may have sealed the match for India in sudden dying however she missed the possibility.
We performed attacking hockey and obtained probabilities (towards New Zealand). We obtained 10 laptop and we scored simply two of them, we may have scored extra,” stated Tirkey.
“Some gamers from whom we had excessive hopes in some way didn’t carry out. We all have accepted it.” One of the perfect defenders of his era, Tirkey was additionally not proud of the efficiency of the house facet’s defensive unit, of which Harmanpreet is the keeper.
He stated, ‘If we discuss out defence, I believe there was some deficiency in our defensive construction, we may have carried out higher (towards New Zealand).
“We additionally felt the absence of Hardik Singh, he was doing very effectively and his harm harm us. But with the gamers we’ve got, we may have gained the match. Head coach Graham Reid stated after Sunday’s loss towards New Zealand that the crew wanted a psychological conditioning coach to maneuver ahead and Tirkey stated Hockey India would take obligatory steps.
He stated, ‘Whatever the crew wants, we’re prepared for that. Whatever the coach and the crew wanted, Hockey India offered them.
Asked whether or not there can be a change within the place of coach or captain, Tirkey stated, “We will see later.” The World Cup is on and any dialogue on it’s not acceptable. India will play Japan of their first classification match on January 26 in Rourkela, adopted by an undisclosed opponent on January 28.
Tirkey stated the crew’s subsequent precedence is to do effectively within the Asian Games to be held later this yr.
“The Asian Games are very important for us and it is our priority ahead of the Olympics next year,” he added.
“Some gamers are out of the crew because of harm, they’ll come again. Some gamers could not have been capable of carry out effectively because of strain. We will present psychological conditioning coach to the crew and we’ll see.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
