Disagree on your assessment on Jeje, He can't improve his speed at this age!! Nor is he the main striker, He brings people into play and has a better touch than any striker we have at the moment (If discounting Sunil).
Least of all a midfielder? One thing he can work on is he cushion passes the ball too much, if u have udanta and Sunil up ahead you need to pass ahead of them and not slowly at them. That's something he can work on.
Also disagree on Rowlin lacking defensive presence, He puts himself about in the midfield, challenges well in the air. Puts in crosses and decent through balls. We have got a exciting midfielder in our hands.
Narayan Has struck a partnership with Narzary and both seem to gel well in defense, we need that until we get someone like jerry and a kean Lewis or a Changte to step up.
Agree with Jacki, Pritam , Robin and Eugene being poor and need to be dropped.
PS : If u would have sacked SC should have been after the 5 straight defeats if not after the Guam away game. 10 straight matches unbeaten, Couple of wins away from Asian cup qualification? No chance.
Plus he got the board behind him and IMG behind him with all the "India Rising" shit.
Plus don't take this friendlies too seriously it's just warmup before the Macau games.
JEJE isn't a technical player His off the ball movement isn't great Will be a mess as midfielder He must continue playing as striker
We need Brandon,Jayesh,Isaac in midfield if we need creativity Rafique,Nazary,Jackie,Jairu won't offer much And Eugene hasn't been great of late we must bench him
Defensively Narayan must be benched Chullova,Jerry,Nishu deserve a chance
Adil also deserves a go very versatile can play Rb,CM to
Chullova, Jerry and Nishu are all still not ready. As much as I didn't rate Narayan, He has done well on the left.
Defensively India was strong in the left and didn't allow any major attacks on that end becos of Narzary and Narayan.
Add to that he can cross the ball from Deep. We dont have any good crossers of the ball at all.
Main concern is on the right, Pritam is not good enough and Sandesh needs to cover for him each time he gets beaten.
Was frustrated and SC also was pissed on the poor attempt to defend the corner which led to a goal. I mean what was he doing letting him head the ball without any challenge!!
Once Udanta comes in who is attack minded we need someone who can be strong on the right back until then that will be our weak link.
Why Rafique? Why persist on Eugene when he is so poor? FFS Anirudh showed more intent than those two which tells a lot.
On a side note Ahem, Finger to all those who blasted me when I told Eugene is a luxury player not useful to the Indian setup. Am still waiting to be proved wrong.
What is paper age for Eugene ? 30, ,31? he real age must be 37-38 he is past his prime he can't even take corners now. time to replace him with Brandon.
But the million paisa question is when would the pot bellied Lobo regain his fitness! ? Going by his paunch and he being in Kolkata for sometime now, he can try out his luck by opening a sweet shop in Kolkata! #jobfitment!
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Disagree on your assessment on Jeje, He can't improve his speed at this age!! Nor is he the main striker, He brings people into play and has a better touch than any striker we have at the moment (If discounting Sunil).
Least of all a midfielder? One thing he can work on is he cushion passes the ball too much, if u have udanta and Sunil up ahead you need to pass ahead of them and not slowly at them. That's something he can work on.
Also disagree on Rowlin lacking defensive presence, He puts himself about in the midfield, challenges well in the air. Puts in crosses and decent through balls. We have got a exciting midfielder in our hands.
Narayan Has struck a partnership with Narzary and both seem to gel well in defense, we need that until we get someone like jerry and a kean Lewis or a Changte to step up.
Agree with Jacki, Pritam , Robin and Eugene being poor and need to be dropped.
PS : If u would have sacked SC should have been after the 5 straight defeats if not after the Guam away game. 10 straight matches unbeaten, Couple of wins away from Asian cup qualification? No chance.
Plus he got the board behind him and IMG behind him with all the "India Rising" shit.
Plus don't take this friendlies too seriously it's just warmup before the Macau games.
His off the ball movement isn't great
Will be a mess as midfielder
He must continue playing as striker
We need Brandon,Jayesh,Isaac in midfield if we need creativity
Rafique,Nazary,Jackie,Jairu won't offer much
And Eugene hasn't been great of late we must bench him
Defensively Narayan must be benched Chullova,Jerry,Nishu deserve a chance
Adil also deserves a go very versatile can play Rb,CM to
And it's time to bin Paul
Defensively India was strong in the left and didn't allow any major attacks on that end becos of Narzary and Narayan.
Add to that he can cross the ball from Deep. We dont have any good crossers of the ball at all.
Main concern is on the right, Pritam is not good enough and Sandesh needs to cover for him each time he gets beaten.
Was frustrated and SC also was pissed on the poor attempt to defend the corner which led to a goal. I mean what was he doing letting him head the ball without any challenge!!
Once Udanta comes in who is attack minded we need someone who can be strong on the right back until then that will be our weak link.
Why Rafique? Why persist on Eugene when he is so poor? FFS Anirudh showed more intent than those two which tells a lot.
On a side note Ahem, Finger to all those who blasted me when I told Eugene is a luxury player not useful to the Indian setup. Am still waiting to be proved wrong.
I doubt you have watched him play
He was very good in I-League and much better than Narayan