After ending their London marketing campaign on a excessive, profitable back-to-back matches towards Belgium and Great Britain, the Indian Men’s Hockey Team look to retain the highest spot in FIH Hockey Pro League. Having performed 12 matches up to now, India is just two factors behind present leaders Great Britain (26 factors), and the workforce led by Harmanpreet Singh are all set for the problem towards the Netherlands and Argentina this week.

“We had some learnings from the first weekend. It is never good to lose two games in a row but we had a really good response for the next two games. The team played really well and deserved the win against Belgium (5-1). It’s tough to play back-to-back matches, GB was coming into the second match fresh while we had just played Belgium the previous evening. They are a good team and managed to score in the end after we had established the lead but it was nice to win a shootout 4-4 (SO 4-2),” mentioned Chief Coach Craig Fulton as quoted by Hockey India. Speaking concerning the takeaways from the matches, Fulton mentioned, “There was a much-improved performance in the second weekend, particularly in our defensive structure and the team also displayed good mentality.”

Adding to Fulton’s views, Captain Harmanpreet Singh mentioned as quoted by Hockey India, “I think our counter-attacks were also good in the second match against Belgium and GB. Playing back-to-back matches against two teams who play a very different style is always challenging but we worked on areas that could bring us back in the game.” “Our PC defence was a good takeaway too,” added Harmanpreet who at the moment leads the chart for highest targets this season with 16 targets to his identify.

Expressing confidence on the again of the success in London, Fulton said that the workforce will take it one match at a time in Eindhoven the place they are going to play Netherlands on the seventh and tenth of June whereas they play Argentina on the eighth and eleventh June. While Netherlands is positioned eighth within the pool desk after 4 matches, they’ve performed up to now, Argentina are positioned fifth after 12 matches within the League this season. “We want to take it one game at a time. We play four games back-to-back and we will look at it as two games in each block. It’s more about us rather than the opponents. It’s about the way we want to play and the improvements we want to make in each block we play.”

“Taking on Netherlands in their home ground is always challenging. We want to do well against both teams. We want to try and perform to our best in every game,” signed off Fulton. (ANI)

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