Malaysian Captain: India is one level up
Malaysia played a hard game against India on Wednesday. It held the higher ranked Indians on level score till two minutes before Rupinder Pal Singh came with a winner in the last penalty corner that India got.
Malaysian captain Mutalib Sukri feels that his team really played a great game.
“We played a great game today. India pressed hard. Just due to some communication gap between first runner and others, we just gave away the second goal in the penalty corner and lost the match. Our first rusher is a fresher, and the miscommunication resulted in losing. But we will improve herein after”.
The 30-year old captain also lamented that the team missed many scoring chances.
“We missed lot of chances. We have to find out, why we failed so, especially in penalty corner attempts, and why our PCs did not work.
“We played well for most part of the match”.
The stoutly built charming leader considered that India is one level up currently and their experience came in time to post the winner.
Having played Olympics and other major tournaments, India is experienced. And their game is one level up than us. We have to catch up with them. Its their experience that undid us today, we learn and will only improve”.
“When we play our last match tomorrow this will be in our minds: to avoid India in the semis. Therefore we will go for points against Korea tomorrow”.
He also had a good word for the huge crowd that turned out to support them.
“Crowd was fantastic. I appreciate them as they support whether we are down or up. us, win or lose. They stand by us.