Sloppy India escape with draw against South Korea
RAJGIR, Sept. 4 -- Unlike the last couple of years where India dominated hockey in the continent, it isn't going to be a walk in the park for the hosts this time around. Not with the way they are playing.
Porous defence, lack of coordination, indisciplined and wayward counterattacks, India continued their poor run at the Asia Cup, just about managing a 2-2 draw against defending champions South Korea in their first Super 4 match on Wednesday.
What looked like an anomaly when the Harmanpreet Singh-led squad lost seven successive matches in the European leg of the FIH Pro League in June, looks to be nothing less than very poor form against teams who couldn't even qualify for the Paris Olympics, let alone enter the top 10 in the world.
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