India captain Harmanpreet Singh confessed that he’s struggling to transform the penalty strokes whereas addressing a media briefing after the hosts misplaced to New Zealand within the crossover on Sunday. The drag-flicker talked about his type on the Hockey World Cup, saying that he has been making an attempt actually onerous, with none success to transform the probabilities supplied within the type of penalty corners. “Of course, everyone is talking about penalty corner conversion. I am trying but it is not coming off. It’s been a while since taking captaincy,” expressed the captain.

Describing his failed try in the course of the penalty shootout, he mentioned, “My mindset was to score the goal going into the sudden-death shootout. We could have sealed the match there. We tried hard but unfortunately failed to convert.”

Head coach Graham Reid PC additionally underlined the workforce’s incapacity to transform the penalty nook but additionally highlighted the missed probability throughout circle penetrations.

“Obviously, corner conversion. We had circle penetration but failed to convert them into goals. Not having converted the penalties is a factor but that is not the only factor. Right now the focus will be to do well in matches against Germany in FIH Pro League,” talked about Reid.

Sharing his ideas on India’s efficiency he mentioned, “Tonight was about consistency. Every team at certain stages have specific issues with circle penetration. It is skill execution. It is about creating chances and we are doing that. As far as training and as far as practice this team does everything.”

New Zealand held their nerves to oust India within the penalty shootout on the Kalinga Stadium on Sunday because the host crashed out of the 2023 Hockey World Cup.

Despite being forward within the recreation, India missed the chance to construct on a 3-1 lead within the third quarter, when New Zealand scored twice within the remaining quarter to tie the sport 3-3 on the finish of the common time forcing a shootout.

In common time, India’s targets got here from Lalit Upadhyay (17 minutes), Sukhjeet Singh (24 minutes), and Varun Kumar (40 minutes), whereas the Black Sticks’ targets got here from Sam Lane (28 minutes), Kane Russell (43 minutes), and Sean Findlay (49 minutes).

India battled again to a tie at 3-3 within the shootout thanks to a couple excellent saves from seasoned goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, and had two probabilities within the sudden dying as Shamsher Singh missed the ultimate shootout try to lose 4-5 in entrance of the house crowd.

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