With his boys improving in attack in the defence since their defeat against France, India coach Graham Reid on Saturday expressed confidence that they will be able to beat top contenders Belgium in their quarter-final encounter in the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup here on December 1.

Reid said he was pretty happy with the way his boys played in thrashing Poland 8-2 on Saturday. About the all-important knockout encounter with Belgium, Reid said: “We will be analysing Belgium and we came out last night as a team to see them play against Malaysia, so that was good. They [the players] had a look at them play and we are very confident and hopefully, we can go and get a victory.”