What looked like same old Indian story, turned in to something else with a late strike by Mr. Utthapa, a 15 yard deflection on to the near post from a powerful ball sent in by Tushar Khandekar from the left flank
India won. 2-1. Narrow but yes, better than having 1 point on their table. Coach was furious after last match, and boys were up to his expectations.
What difference I could see was the rotation of players, coach rotated both our drag flickers smartly and so.as the mid feilders, it was.the first time in a while that I saw both sandeep and raghunath on the feild at.the same time. The strikers were going back to defend and center forwards were playing wingers.
Total hockey, if that is a term. The only minus I would say that the team went into a defensive shell in the second half, allowing the koreans to move freely. The defense was good and goal keeping excellent, but mind u, the defense was not organized at all.
India looked like bunch of headless goons who were told to clear the ball in old fashioned way rather than going for a counter attack.
Well to sum up, the strike from super sandeep was as clean as they come, and India takes home its first win on the nlue turf
