Unavoidable issues for Indian hockey after Gold Coast catastrophe

Unavoidable issues for Indian hockey after Gold Coast catastrophe 

Out of the blue since 1998, the Indian hockey groups will return home without a decoration from the Commonwealth Games. While the ladies surpassed most desires excepting an emergency in the last quarter of their bronze decoration coordinate against England, the men should ponder what has been a frustrating trip in Gold Coast.

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One of the greatest reactions of the Indian group as of late has been that they neglect to turn up in the business end of rivalries, and that pattern proceeded in Gold Coast. In Rio, India beat possible champions Argentina in the alliance stages, yet lost to Belgium in the quarter-finals. In the World League a year ago, they lost to Malaysia and Canada once the knockout stages started in the semi-finals.

In Gold Coast, India confronted New Zealand and appeared to be gotten unprepared by the association and pace of their rivals, trailing 2-0 early and afterward falling 3-2.India had rejected hard against England in the pool stages, returning to score two objectives inside the most recent two minutes, yet in the bronze decoration coordinate, they lost 2-1.

India appear to experience the ill effects of a psychological barrier when difficulties arise, and could be ideally serviced by standard contributions from a games therapist, who could enable them to approach pool matches and those in the knockout a similar way.

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The midfield problem

India's squad for Gold Coast was somewhat disproportionate in the quality and amount in midfield. There was constantly liable to be an over reliance on commander Manpreet Singh - with the untested Sumit, Vivek Sagar Prasad and Chinglensana Singh supporting him - and that turned out to be to be the situation.

While Manpreet played his heart out, particularly in the hard-battled prevails upon Wales and Malaysia, the psychological and physical tiredness of playing six amusements inside eight recreations in the end inflicted significant damage. Vivek is one for the future, and indicated looks of his capacity amid the Games, yet India should reexamine how they approach making a more adaptable midifield in the wake of their Gold Coast failure. There's sufficient ability around whatever remains of the pitch, however they are probably not going to contend frequently with the best sides on the planet in the event that they don't have no less than three quality players to browse, those that can adjust both assault and protection with a similar proficiency.

An issue of change

India had their offer of chances in every one of the matches they played in Gold Coast, yet simply didn't trade sufficiently out. Driving 2-1 against Pakistan in the opening diversion, they had an opportunity to finish the amusement off however Mandeep Singh went for a thin point shot as opposed to lay it up for SV Sunil.

In the match that made a difference, against New Zealand, India made nine punishment corners, yet just changed over one. Both their failure to change over PCs and their permeable protection - in spite of having the administrations of PR Sreejesh in objective without precedent for a noteworthy occasion in about multi year - were a reason for worry for mentor Sjoerd Marijne.

"In the five months [since I took over], we didn't make such a significant number of chances as we did now. I am upbeat about that. We need to continue taking a shot at scoring," he said after the New Zealand overcome on Friday. "This is the first occasion when I saw them making more protective mistakes. We work extremely hard on guard. The group is additionally frustrated that for all the exertion we put, we didn't get the outcome."

Marijne would be the first to concede that while disappointment could be a relative term, result is a flat out. India have failed to meet expectations, and there is no getting away from that.