After a poor start, the Indian men’s hockey team, which brought its campaign to the pattern, will come to the FIH Pro League on Tuesday to maintain the rhythm of victory against the Paris Olympic silver medalist Germany. Spain gave India 3 in the first match of the Pro League’s domestic phase. Defeated by 1. After this, the Indian team, however, returned firmly to Spain in the return match. Beat 0.
India is now in the eighth position in the table with three points in two matches and would like to win the next match and go up. After the break on Saturday, the Indian team scored a lot of three points by winning the goal of Mandeep Singh and Dilpreet Singh on Sunday. Head coach Craig Fulton, however, will be upset over the penalty corner not being converted. India got seven penalty corners in two matches but could not score even one.
Captain Harmanpreet Singh was rested in the second match with which Hockey India League star Jugraj Singh proved to be weak. Dilpreet, Mandeep and Sukhjit Singh have scored one goal so far and would like to increase it against Germany. Indian Defense also performed better in the second match. The German team, playing their first match in the Indian phase, is at seventh place with four points in four matches.
Germany has won the same match so far but his forward players like Rafael Hartcoff, Gonzalo Pelat and Thias Prinj have scored two goals. Both teams faced in a two -match series in Delhi in October 2024 in which Germany won the first and India won the second match. Germany won the series in the shootout.
Regarding the upcoming matches, Harmanpreet said, “The German team is very good and we have to do our best. The victory against Spain is freshly elevated but still has to improve the performance significantly. Penalty corner has to be improved.
