Local hero Amit Rohidas and midfielder Hardik Singh scored in India’s dominant win towards Spain on Friday. A win towards England, ranked fifth on this planet, on Sunday will assist India put one foot within the quarterfinals as they will fancy their possibilities of beating Wales of their closing Pool D match.

India are ranked sixth on this planet whereas Wales are fifteenth.

“We are up against England next and it will be tougher, they are ranked higher than us. We know how tough England are in the Commonwealth Games,” Reid stated.

Last 12 months, the 2 sides confronted one another 3 times with their final match performed on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, ending 4-4 within the group stage. They performed out a 3-3 draw within the first leg of the Pro League match earlier than India received 4-3 within the second, each video games performed in April.

“So, we will try to continue our good work (from the Spain match). We did really well defensively (against Spain), we have to continue it,” Reid added.

Captain Harmanpreet Singh agreed that England can be robust opponents and the house facet should play their finest hockey to beat them.

“We are taking it match by match. Spain is done now and our focus is on England and we are planning for that,” he stated.

“Winning penalty corners is very important and we can be better in PC conversion. We are hoping we will do better in that regard,” stated the drag-flicker who was not at his finest within the match towards Spain.

He couldn’t discover the goal within the 5 penalty corners India received and in addition wasted a penalty stroke.

“Once again, we need team effort. We have to make up for those who do not do that well on a particular day.”

Rohidas, who began studying his hockey from the Panposh Sports Hostel in Rourkela, stated execution of group plans might be key to win matches.

“I started from the Panposh sports hostel here and playing at home is a wonderful feeling. The support from such a large crowd motivated us but once we are on the pitch we try to focus on the game,” he stated.

“It is a team effort and because of the team I got the chance to score in front of the home crowd which included my family members. We are not under pressure and the key to our success will be to execute the plans of the team.”

Rohidas was within the good place to slam the ball house previous a hapless Spain goalkeeper after Harmanpreet’s drag flick rebounded from the stick of a defender. Hardik later made a solo run to attain India’s second purpose.