2-0 India. Fairly easy game. Anirudh Thapa with an excellent well worked second goal. Afghanistan GK send off for a late second foul on substitute Japes Singh (for Prashant), leading to a second yellow and was send off. The Afghani GK was piss poor throughout, parrying easy balls on to his crossbar on more than 2 occasions. India tactically were very effective, and technically, Jerry Lalrinzuala the LB stood out. Kamalpreet likes to send in crosses form the deep and his game was simple, but fairly effective. Daniel, Prashant, Khiangte were not so effective today. They will have better games. Hayden changed the game when he came on and looked very composed in central midfield. Moinuddin is a willing runner, but he needs to stop getting caught off-side, but it is encouraging that he plays on the shoulder of the opposition centre backs and he has decent pace. The back 4 of Shahbaaz, Tudu, Golui and Jerry were good today and did very well. Sayak Barai the GK was not tested at all, though he looks tiny for a GK.
The central midfield needs to be better IMO, particularly when it comes to defending.
Bidyananda is coming back from a very long injury lay-off where he missed the entire 2015 U19 I-League, so I can understand him being eased back into action. I won't be surprised if he satrts the next game the A team plays in the ACT.
Hayden should definitely start next game IMO int he SAFF U19, he changed the game when he came on. Surpirsed Rohit Kumar, the DSK U19 central midfielder played further forward when he came on.
Anirudh Thapa was good only in patches and saved himself by scoring.. Japes though was fouled probably thought he was in the box and went down.. Else it was easy 3rd goal for us.disappointed by Daniel:s finishing.. I think he is probably saving his energy as he will play ACT as well.. Kamalpreet has pace and good technique.. Left back Jerry is awesome but his heavy build slows his pace, still good enough.. Overall Kalyani boys look smaller and younger compared to Mumbai academy kids.. My worry is when the team is merged with ACT team for AFC finals wouldn't that lead to lack of understanding for the important qualifiers
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Two goals of match.. for second goal the first touch was pretty good to get clear of defender and not overhitting it