For Indian Hockey it is a long way still.The loss against malaysia was not a suprise but still compared to the games they played during the WC& CWG in India there was considerable improvement.Defence they have improved w/o any doubt but still the mid-field game and forwards in the opposition D are not combining well.There are lot of gaps.They have to keep playing and improve their game.There are no short cuts.
India played extremely well. It so happened that it was do or die match. Indian Hockey tem is continusouly playing from Common Wealth games and if I'm correct lost only two matches ie., One against Australia(Commonwealth) and another against Malaysia (Asiad). Unfortunately, both became proved very costly for India. In short loosing only two matches out of 15 or so played. In other words India played extremely well just it didn't happened to be our day. I heard D'souza telling in Ten Sports that the Malaysia Goal keeper is "the" best goal keeper in the world. Anyway, all is not lost for India and even though we were defeated against a smaller team no regrets because even the great Indian cricket team lost to two small nations in the last world cup ie., Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. This is game and it does happen.
Re: Looser Pakis
by secret on Nov 23, 2010 11:05 PM
Too bad there is no sport that tests your "Terrorism" skills. You'll sweep all 3 medals in that sport.
Re: Pak in Final
by secret on Nov 23, 2010 10:55 PM
Our hockey team believes defeating Pakis to be the pinnacle. Given time, it will rise and challenge the mighty Aussies. I appeal all Indians to support hockey at least one tenth as Cricket.
After defeating Pakistan, Indian hockey team believes that they have earned a Platinum medal. The performance drops thereafter. It is pardonable though.
