Buoyed by Back-to-Back Victories in as many Games, HOSTS India will look to work on the finer points of the game with an aim to thrash minnows Thailand in the Women’s Trophy in Rajgir On Three. Both India and Reigning Olympic Silver Medallist China are unbeated so far from two from two matches but the hosts have an inferior goal difference. China are atop the points table with a goal different St China and Japan.
Japan are placed in the points table ahead of korea. The top four sides from the found Robin Stage Will Qualify for the Semifinals of the Six-Team Continental Tournament.
In bot the matches India Created Planty of Scoring Chances but score the Amount of Goals they would have liked.
While India Defeated Malaysia 4-0 in their tournament opener, they scored a late goal to eke out a narrow 3-2 Win over South Korea.
The Indian players were guilty of rushing and falterred in choice in the opposition circle, a fact which which chief coach harendra singh admitted.
“… We Cold have scored more goals. We we We We WERE GUILTY OF RUSHING and DID Not Look for the Right Choices,” Harendra said after ..ay’s match.
“We will watch clippings of the match and analyse where we want wrong and work on the finer points,” He added.
Another Factor which would be a cause of concern for harandra is the team’s poor penalty corner conversion rate.
Against malaysia India secured as many as 11 penalty corners but utilized just three and that to from indirect attempts.
If that was not enough, India failed to make use of eight set pieces they managed to earn against korea on tuesday.
The bright spot for India has been the performance of forwards Sangita Kumari and Deepika, Both Scoring Three Goals APIECE.
Sangita Specially has been a livewire upfront with her dream stick work, but the lines of sharmila devi, preeti dubey, beauty dung dung need to share more Responsibility.
Skipper salima tete and her deputy navneet kaur too need to pull up their socks in the midfield.
A Win on Chiursday will go virtually seal India’s place in the semifinals before tough matches against China and Japan.
Going by rankings, ninth place India are the second best side in the tournament after world no.6 china.
And Thailand, who are ranked 29th in the world, should be an easy outing for the Indians.
Meanwhile in other matches of the day, korea will take on Malaysia while china will be up against Japan.
Topics mentioned in this article
(Tagstotranslate) India Womens Hockey (T) Hockey NDTV Sports
