Hockey World Cup 2018: Canada vs South Africa - 5 Talking Points

#1 No goal from Penalty Corners

Canada v South Africa - FIH Men's Hockey World Cup

Nowadays, Penalty Corners are considered the most potent weapon to score goals in hockey. Every team, who want to make a name for themselves in the sport, have at least one specialist drag flicker.

For example, Argentina have the best drag flicker of the world Gonzalo Peillat, India have Rupinder Pal Singh and Harmanpreet Singh. Likewise, South Africa have Austin Smith who has made a reputation scoring from penalty corner

On a day, when the teams got eight penalty corners among themselves, there was not a single goal that came out of it. Six of them was won by South Africa and apart of three, which was saved by Carter, three other went wasted by them.

For South Africa, there was no proper planning in place while taking penalty corners. Canada perhaps was more concentrated in making their field opportunities count as both of their penalty corners missed the target.