India finally realize power of its biggest weapon
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India is the only team in the Olympics blessed with three great penalty corner experts in VR Raghunath, Rupinder Pal Singh and Harmanpreet Singh and with the Indian strikers firing blanks, the onus was on these three to score goals for India and they did not disappoint.
With Indian strikers failing to score field goals, they started focusing on earning penalty corners and out of the eight penalty corners earned, India managed to convert 3 (Rupinder Pal scoring 2 and Raghunath scoring 1) to give India a comfortable lead against the Irish. No doubt, the conversion ratio is much lower as compared with the times of Sandeep Singh, with 8 shots, their confidence is only going to build on.
Penalty corner conversion can improve even more in the upcoming games but today’s performance will give Indian penalty corners experts a great boost before the game against Germany.
India will next face 2012 Olympics champions, Germany, and by improving in certain sections of the game, India can give a tough fight to the defending champions. The match between India and Germany will be played on 8th August
