~The Indian Males’s Hockey Crew is at present positioned fourth within the desk~
London, seventh June 2024: The Indian Males’s Hockey Crew has two matches left within the FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24. They are going to be up in opposition to Germany on eighth June and in opposition to hosts Nice Britain on ninth June in a bid to finish their marketing campaign on a excessive.
After the Antwerp stage and two matches through the London stage, the Males’s workforce is positioned fourth within the factors desk. The Indian Males’s Hockey Crew has to this point amassed 24 factors from 14 matches. In the meantime, their opponents Germany and Nice Britain sit in sixth and seventh place respectively, having performed 7 matches within the FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24 to this point.
Within the Antwerp stage, India began with a 2 – 2 (5 – 4 SO) shootout win in opposition to Argentina, adopted by a 1-4 loss to Belgium, they misplaced to the identical opponent in a shootout 2 – 2 (1 – 3 SO) earlier than defeating Argentina in an exhilarating match which ended 5-4 of their favour.
Within the London stage, the workforce has performed two matches. They beat Germany 3-0 earlier than taking place 1-3 in opposition to hosts Nice Britain of their second match.
Talking on the workforce’s efficiency to this point, Vice-Captain Hardik Singh mentioned, “We’ve performed some good hockey, however there are nonetheless some areas the place we have to enhance if we would like the end result to go in our favour. Our goal in these final two matches might be to start out aggressively and work on our greatest combos. We’ll go step-by-step, attempt to play good hockey, and most significantly look to maintain the momentum going.”
“The complete workforce is aware of that the London stage FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24 matches are crucial in our preparations for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. Due to this fact, it’s important that we don’t take something as a right and provides our greatest on the market,” Hardik Singh added.
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