FIH Women’s World Cup Qualifiers | Coach Marijne wants ever-improving India to ‘kill the matches’

Coach Marijne emphasizes India's need to improve penalty corner execution and capitalize on chances in FIH Women’s World Cup Qualifiers.

Despite India being on top of Pool B in the ongoing FIH Women’s World Cup Qualifiers, head coach Sjoerd Marijne lamented his side’s inability to capitalise on its chances in the 2-2 draw against Scotland on Monday.

“We had nine PCs and enough possibilities to score more,” Marijne told reporters.

“It feels like a loss, and that is good because you want to win these matches, you need to win these kinds of matches. That’s what we are working on. I was happy that we came back from a goal down. I like resilience, but it was not enough to kill the match.”

Marijne pointed to penalty corner execution as a key area that needs improvement.

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“If you get nine PCs, we mistrap the direction of the inflexion, the performance of where the ball has to be… all these things were just not good enough, and that is something we have to keep working on.”