because you dont want to lose and fight every little battle that you have during training everything is at a tempo higher than it might be when you are training among yourselves that was really good he addedthe other positivesindia defeated belgium 20 in the opening match of the tour though it was largely an inexperienced team fielded by the world champions with many of their firstchoice national players missing belgium have already qualified for the olympics as continental europe winners photo hockey indiaspain however were at full strength trying to tune up for their olympic qualifier against france india thumped the spaniards 61 and 51 in the two meetings before defeating belgium again 21 and 51 in the last two matches of the tourthe tour was really good our preparation was very good but of course you never know at what level the team is at until you play against teams like belgium and spain so it was very pleasing to go there and find that level said reidwhat i also liked was that we were able to score a good mixture of penalty corner and field goals and if you want to compete at the highest level you need to have that mix as often as you can because as we know sometimes one or the other doesnt work and when they do you are very difficult to beatin about three weeks on november 1 and 2 india will host 22ndranked russia for their twomatch olympic qualifying event in bhubaneswar the winner of the series goes through to play the 2020 olympics in tokyo