India’s chief coach Graham Reid on Sunday mentioned the staff wants a psychological conditioning coach going forward after the hosts misplaced to New Zealand in penalty shootout in a crossover match to crash out of the hockey World Cup. Reid’s feedback might be a sign that his staff was not in a position to take care of the psychological side of the sport as the house aspect as soon as once more dominated their crossover match however squandered two objective lead twice to finish at 3-3 within the regulation time.

“We need to do something different perhaps. Following this, we will work on how we can get a mental coach involved. I think that is an important part for the future of the team,” a distraught Reid mentioned on the publish match convention.

“As far as the drills or training are concerned, we do what all other teams do. I have been in this game for a long time and I know what other teams are doing. If there is anything necessary, a silver bullet out there, I do think that (is) mentally.” In the shootout, India and New Zealand had been tied 3-3 after 5 pictures. Captain Harmanpreet Singh had the prospect to seal the match within the first spherical of sudden dying when New Zealand’s Nic Woods fluffed his likelihood, however he inexplicably selected to take a direct hit from a distance and wasted the golden likelihood.

Next, each Raj Kumar Pal and Sean Findlay scored because the scores had been tied.

Both Sukhjeet and Hayden Phillips missed subsequent to maintain the scoreline degree. Shamsher Singh lastly missed whereas Sam Lane transformed to seal a 5-4 shootout win for New Zealand and break the hearts of the 15,000 full-to-the-brim crowd on the Kalinga Stadium.

Asked why he took a shot like that in an important second, Harmanpreet mentioned, “It was a good opportunity and I wanted to score and seal the match. But it did not happen.” On whether or not captaincy has put stress on him and affected his efficiency, he mentioned, “It is a team game. Everybody has been talking about my (lack of) penalty corner conversions. But I had not gone into a match without wanting to score. I feel no pressure. I have to work harder and the same for the team also.” Reid mentioned the staff would wish to return to the drafting board and type out the errors.

“Tonight, we lacked consistency. In the last quarter, for example, we let ourselves down. We threw the ball away, kept doing stuff like that, Things like that made it very difficult for ourselves.

“Every staff has at some stage had sure points like changing circle penetration. We want to return to the drafting board just a little bit later,” he said.

“It may be very laborious to reply questions after such a loss. It is (lack of) ability execution on the finish of the day, We have to work on that.” He refused to make any comments on whether the current team was the best available for the World Cup.

“I’m not making feedback on the gamers. We nonetheless need to play two matches (classification matches for ninth to sixteenth place).” “We made loads of circle penetration however we couldn’t convert them. Three or 4 extra (targets) may have been there.” The Australian said lack of penalty corner conversion was not the only issue against New Zealand.

“PC was an element however not the one one. The downside tonight was each time we gained the ball we gave it again (to the opponents) and that occurred many occasions. That was the telling issue and you’ll’t do this at this degree.” Reid, whose tenure is up to the 2024 Olympics, gave no hints of leaving the job as he listed the matches coming up.

“After these two classification matches, we’ve Pro League matches in opposition to Germany and Australia after which we’ve a Test sequence in opposition to Australia. But our focus is on the following match.” India will play Japan on January 26 within the classification match.

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