Need to beat Wales by big margin, responsibility on forwards: Mandeep Singh

The Indian hockey team is all set to take on Wales in their third Pool D match of the FIH Hockey World Cup 2023 on Thursday here at the Kalinga Stadium in BhubaneswarThe Tokyo Olympic bronze medallists will have to beat Wales by a big margin especially if England beat Spain in the other Pool D match in order to finish on topDefinitely it is a very important match which we have to win by a big margin We played well against Spain as well as against England but goals were not coming out You can say that luck was not our way Team was playing well but the ball was not going to the goal post We have worked on it and seen our videos too where to create space and from where to hit We have worked on it in the last few days and idea is to get a good outcome in next few games said Indian hockey team forward Mandeep SinghDefender Nilam Sanjeep Xess too is focussed and is also aware of the fact that India will have to not only beat Wales but they will have to hand them a crushing defeat in order to top the Pool DOur planning is to win against Wales by a margin of 810 goals said Indian defender Nilam Sanjeep Xess while speaking to ANIIndian hockey team beat Spain 20 in their first match of the ongoing World Cup in Rourkela on Friday while their match against England on Sunday was a goalless drawAlso readFIH Hockey World Cup Argentina toil to beat South Africa 10 in FIH mens World Cup openerDefinitely for forwards the responsibility is to score goals It is not that we have to play individually to score goals We have to play as a team and pass the ball where needed in order to score the goal We have to get either PC or a goal going into the D If we get PC then we have one of the best drag flickers to score goals explained Mandeep SinghIndian hockey team has not been at their best in terms of penalty corner conversion in this tournament so far but the experienced forward Mandeep feels that will change with the team from now onwards playing all their matches in BhubaneswarThe ground in Rourkela was not conducive for our drag flickers The ball was not coming onto the stick the way it should come But this ground is different and faster and I think our drag flickers will score goals explained Mandeep SinghYoung Indian defender Nilam Sanjeep Xess is playing his first World Cup and to add to it he is playing it in his home state OdishaI am very happy that my first World Cup is in my home state Odisha that is why I am very happy It feels great to play with so much of crowd coming to support you So it is a great feeling said Nilam Sanjeep Xess while speaking to ANIFans have been coming huge numbers to support the Indian hockey team and here in Bhubaneswar also it will be no differentI would like to tell the fans to come and support us and we would like to give our best to win the match said MandeepIf India top their pool then they will not have to play the cross over match and moreover they will face a relatively easier opponent in quarterfinalIndia hockey squad Abhishek Surender Kumar Manpreet Singh Hardik Singh Jarmanpreet Singh Mandeep Singh Harmanpreet Singh captain Lalit Upadhyay Krishan Pathak GK Nilam Sanjeep Xess PR Sreejesh GK Nilakanta Sharma Shamsher Singh Varun Kumar Akashdeep Singh Amit Rohidas vicecaptain Vivek Sagar Prasad and Sukhjeet SinghReserve players Jugraj Singh and Rajkumar PalThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever