Shivender looks forward to revenge match against Australia tomorrow

Australians themselves have nothing to do with it, but they were the indirect beneficiary.
Shivender now looks forward to the Australian match tomorrow to turn the table, here in the Azlan Shah Cup to take a revenge of sort, to satisfy personally.

Shivender Singh, India’s live-wire forward, who just scored India’s first goal in the Delhi World Cup – that was all the more against arch rivals Pakistan — was undeservedly faced suspension for two matches, not from the umpires, not out of any complaint by the rival team, but out of urgency of Tournament Director Ken Reid to send right message to all participating teams.

After he anchored India’s fluent and heartwarming 4-1 win over Pakistan, the emerging striker’s urge to go up and up, and showcase his skills before the home audience was curtailed by the unwarranted suspension of someone else’s, what to say, sadism?.

Just after getting Man of the Match award here today, with spectacular goal that gave India an applaudable victory over Korea (3-2), he opened up.

“Certainly, I am excited to play against Australia tomorrow. I failed to face them in Delhi which I was eager then. If I can contribute to the team’s success tomorrow, I will be more than satisfied, not just because that will give us full point, but also we can feel we are equally good, not a bad side to go down 2-5 which so happened in Delhi”, he said.

Just moments after missing a sitter, Shivender showed class of his persona in today’s match against Korea, latching on to a pass from Danish Mujtaba, he gave a gentle scoop to give India the third goal, which turned out to be the match winner in the end. He was rightly declared Man of the Match.

Is it then emotion adequate to take on a side like Australia”. This was posed to him.

“Australia is an attacking side, they relish to attack, so also we. We have been improving here, and if the manner with which we attacked today against Korea, we should match the Australians tomorrow, and then if we use our chances as we did today, the chances of us winning tomorrow is well within us”, he elaborated.

Another reason for Shivender’s optimism is, improving penalty corner defence of the team. “We are not scoring through penalty corners, ok, but we are also not allowing many scored against us. Australia is also not converting any better. Against Egypt they got many but struggled to make use of them. Considering everything, am in a happy frame of mind insofar as tomorrow’s match is concerned”, Shivender said.