Junior Hockey World Cup: India Need To Guard Against Complacency Against Spain | Cricket News

Their marketing campaign has began off positively, however India should guard towards complacency after they face Spain of their second Pool C match of the FIH junior males’s hockey World Cup in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. Vice-captain Araijeet Singh Hundal got here out to be India’s saviour, scoring a hat-trick as India overcame some anxious moments to beat Korea 4-2 of their opener on Tuesday. But India’s coach C R Kumar was not too glad with the efficiency and stated his aspect must be extra medical and keep away from conceding pointless penalty corners.

India conceded six penalty corners, whereas earned simply two towards Korea.

“We are very happy that we got the three points and that’s the positive side. But we have to more clinical in both circles. We conceded two goals in penalty corners which we need to pay attention to,” Kumar stated after the Korea match.

“We gave away too many many penalty corners, six in the whole game where we had just two. We need to be more cautious.” India are striving to safe their fourth podium end within the occasion after having received the event twice in 2001 (Hobart) and Lucknow (2016).

The nation had clinched a silver medal means again in 1997 in Milton Keynes, England.

Skipper Uttam Singh and his deputy Hundal are the one two gamers of the large occasion having featured within the final version of the event, the place India completed fourth in Bhubaneswar, shedding to France within the bronze medal play-off match.

The Spaniards, who’ve a bronze medal of their kitty on the 2005 version in Rotterdam, are India’s hardest opponent within the pool, comprising Canada as the opposite aspect.

But going by kind, India will begin as favourites towards Spain on Thursday.

India’s final pool match is towards Canada on Saturday.

Pool A consists of defending champions Argentina, Australia, Chile, and Malaysia, whereas Pool B has Egypt, France, Germany and South Africa. Pool D is the hardest of the lot as Belgium, Netherlands, New Zealand and Pakistan can be vying for a quarterfinal berth.

The prime two groups from every pool will qualify for the quarterfinals.

The Indians performed an attacking sport from the onset on Tuesday and would look to proceed in the identical vein however their defence should be cautious towards counter-attacks which the Koreans used to nice impact to earn penalty corners.

Spain too could be seeking to exploit that weak point towards the Indians.

(This story has been edited by Mahaz News workers …)