Not far from ‘perfect finishing’: Craig Fulton

Chennai. Indian hockey team head coach Craig Fulton admitted that the penalty corner conversion rate was poor in their Asian Champions Trophy match against Japan but said his team is not far away from perfect finishing. The Indian team could only manage one goal from 15 penalty corners against Asian Games champions Japan and the match ended in a 1. 1 was drawn. In the first match, India beat China by 7. 2 and six goals came from penalty corners.

Fulton said in the post-match press conference, “If we are not able to capitalize on opportunities, then it is a matter of concern for every coach. You always try to find out why this happened. Let’s get the right combination for this. ”””’ He said, ” It is not that we are not executing our strategy. We are playing the way we want to play. We made two-three good counter-attacks in this match as well. We are not far from perfect finishing.

He praised Japan for their excellent defence, saying, “Japan played good defense and attack.” We meditated at half time and returned to the match in the second half. He saved the penalty corner very well. We could not convert the corner into goal but will work on it and do better in the next match.” Against Japan, the Indians focused only on penalty corners and not field goals.

Fulton said on this, “It is circumstantial. We want our players to attack. They take decisions on the field and we support them. Making so many corners is also a good thing. ”While captain Harmanpreet Singh said that there is no pressure on his team. He said, “We keep trying to give the best performance. Japan’s defense was good. We were following the instructions and we know what to do in the next match against Malaysia.

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