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Graham Reid (Hockey India Picture)
Captain Harmanpreet Singh had the possibility to seal the match within the first spherical of sudden dying however he inexplicably selected to take a direct hit from a distance and wasted the golden likelihood.
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 right here.
Reid’s feedback might be a sign that his staff was not in a position to take care of the psychological facet of the sport as the house aspect as soon as once more dominated their crossover match however squandered two-goal lead twice to finish at 3-3 within the regulation time.
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“We have to do one thing completely different maybe. Following this, we’ll work on how we are able to get a psychological coach concerned. I feel that is a crucial half for the way forward for the staff,” a distraught Reid mentioned on the post-match convention.
“So far as the drills or coaching are involved, we do what all different groups do. I’ve been on this recreation for a very long time and I do know what different groups are doing. If there may be something vital, a silver bullet on the market, I do assume that (is) mentally.”
Within the shootout, India and New Zealand had been tied 3-3 after 5 pictures. Captain Harmanpreet Singh had the possibility 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.
Subsequent, each Raj Kumar Pal and Sean Findlay scored because the scores had been tied.
Each 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.
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Requested why he took a shot like that in an important second, Harmanpreet mentioned, “It was a great alternative and I wished to attain and seal the match. But it surely didn’t occur.”
On whether or not captaincy has put stress on him and affected his efficiency, he mentioned, “It’s a staff recreation. All people has been speaking about my (lack of) penalty nook conversions. However I had not gone right into a match with out wanting to attain. I really feel no stress. I’ve to work more durable and the identical for the staff additionally.” Reid mentioned the staff would wish to return to the drafting board and kind out the errors.
“Tonight, we lacked consistency. Within the final quarter, for instance, we let ourselves down. We threw the ball away, stored doing stuff like that, Issues like that made it very troublesome for ourselves.
“Each staff has at some stage had sure points like changing circle penetration. We have to return to the drafting board somewhat bit later,” he mentioned.
“It is vitally laborious to reply questions after such a loss. It’s (lack of) ability execution on the finish of the day, We have to work on that.” He refused to make any feedback on whether or not the present staff was the perfect accessible for the World Cup.
“I’m not making feedback on the gamers. We nonetheless must play two matches (classification matches for ninth to sixteenth place).” “We made a variety of circle penetration however we couldn’t convert them. Three or 4 extra (objectives) might have been there.” The Australian mentioned lack of penalty nook conversion was not the one concern towards New Zealand.
“PC was an element however not the one one. The issue tonight was each time we received the ball we gave it again (to the opponents) and that occurred many instances. That was the telling issue and you may’t try this at this degree.” Reid, whose tenure is as much as the 2024 Olympics, gave no hints of leaving the job as he listed the matches developing.
“After these two classification matches, we have now Professional League matches towards Germany and Australia after which we have now a Take a look at sequence towards Australia. However our focus is on the following match.” India will play Japan on January 26 within the classification match.
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