#3 Striker Sardara Singh to enhance goalside finishing
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If one took a closer look at our strikers’ recent performances, it would be vividly apparent that none other than vice-captain SV Sunil has clicked for India on every occasion. There have been a few PC goals here and there, fetched by our drag-flickers while midfielders Devinder Walmiki and Sardara Singh featured in the scoresheets with timely goals secured from open play to their names.
A forward lineup that boasts of talented individuals like Nikkin Thimmaiah, Ramandeep Singh, Talwinder Singh, Akashdeep Singh and the rested Mandeep Singh who top-scored in the Champions Trophy lacks the maturity and experience to enforce wider margins in victory by scoring more frequently, as would be required in a platform as lofted as this year’s Olympics.
Midfielder Manpreet Singh has been exquisite at the centre which renders Sardara’s effectiveness up front as the perfect answer to India’s present goal-getting woes. That leaves us with a captain who has a tremendous lot to offer inside the opposition’s area which could easily outweigh his current contribution in midfield.
