What the teams say about Home Team Quarterfinal

Captain Sardar Singh: The tournament starts now. There are no options than to go for victory tomorrow. We should focus on committing less mistakes or no mistakes. We made some unforced errors in the league phase and suffered. There one can get away with it. Now in this knock out there is no second chance. The entire team is aware of this and is fully focussed. Our rival team’s morale will be certainly up.

They had defeated world’s number one team. Whenever a team defeats a higher ranked team, its spirit will be up.

They know this. We have a plan in place and will work hard to implement tomorrow. We have to focus one hundred percent on the game. Should not even bother what the stands will be. We will not take pressure of home side. Will play our normal game. Yes, we have not got sufficient number of penalty corners . We have world’s best flickers. What I assure is we will put our best tomorrow, create more chances be it penalty corners or striking goals straight away.

Manpreet Singh: We have a good team. How Great Britain played here is wonderful. But we know we have to do our best. We have trained to counter them. Yes, we missed many chances in the league stage, that won’t be the feature of tomorrow’s match. I am confident we will give our best and go for the best result.

Defender Jasjit Singh Kular: After the World Cup, this is a big match for me. I am enjoying playing in top tournaments, Tomorrow is a tough match. In fact, it’s a do or die situation. Entire team is aware of this and are determined to give their best.

I think we should be bit more energetic, use the opportunities that come our way, show better co-ordination in all layers of the game.

Pool loses do not matter much. We know every European team is a tough nut. Unless and until we use the chances we create, result will not come. We are trying to minimize our mistakes and utilize chances. Lets see what happens.

Video clip of Sardar Singh ahead of Quarterfinals: