Mandar, Narender, Gurpreet, Rahul were totally flop today. Communication was missing amongst the back line.
Jerry, Thapa, Sahal, Sunil, Udanta, Chhangte were better.
We were poor in possession and failed to slow down the game in second half. We gave lot of Corners to them (10 or 12). Coach needs to do a lot of work. We will face even tougher opposition in WC Qualifiers.
Was at the stadium today, what a wonderful atmosphere created by the Blue Pilgrims and the local fans!! Disappointed by our performance in the second half!
Anyways is there any means to watch the full match again? Any link?
The Croat added the the side's lapse of concentration in the second half was what cost India the game. "We could not find much concentration in the second half to keep going on in the same way and that was the biggest problem. The main problem in Asian football is a lack of concentration. Especially in the second half, the gaps between the lines became obvious and every body lost his position too easily. You could see the the game changed after individual mistakes - not after team and collective mistakes."
He also spoke about the need to improve the youngsters in Indian football. "We have many young players who are here for the first time. We had many 18-20 year olds, but it's not an excuse - their (Tajikistan) average age today was 22 and a half. We need to be worried about that. This Tajikistan team has beaten us with their U-23 side and they beat us well. We must think now what we did wrong in the younger ages and what we must improve and how we teach the players how to grow up," he said.
"The main problem in Asian football is a lack of concentration." --This is an interesting observation of Igor Stimac. Do you agree with it, guys or do you think that it is too sweeping a criticism of Asian football?
@Nagendra bhai I am not saying Narendra should never be selected again in NT due to today's performance. All I am saying is he has not anything to get selected at this stage in NT and that too ahead of Anwar. Igor made his choice to field him and we suffered.
How many competitive matches has Narender played last season ?? 10 ? See this is the problem with Indian football. We don't play enough. And the coach was selected after the season got over and he had to select these players purely based on assistant feedback and few clips ??
If we keep on experimenting in this scale we will have just 2 more games in this cup and considering there will be no more NT matches before qualifiers, we can't expect the STIMAC team will start playing brilliantly from the match of the qualifier. Football is also about team combination, playing together and chemistry. This is NT for God's sake, not a club. We will suffer big time in qualifiers if he does like this. Criticizing Stephen was easy, but I hope people are understanding why he did what he did considering the quality of our players and other constraints.
So far Igor's team selection has been as shit as Stephens. If we keep loosing at home to Tajikistan, why bring these white coaches by paying tax payer money.
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Disappointed by our performance in the second half!
Anyways is there any means to watch the full match again? Any link?
https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/india-vs-tajikistan-igor-stimac-india-doesnt-have-great-defenders-yet-intercontinentals-cup-2019/article28313581.ece
The Croat added the the side's lapse of concentration in the second half was what cost India the game. "We could not find much concentration in the second half to keep going on in the same way and that was the biggest problem. The main problem in Asian football is a lack of concentration. Especially in the second half, the gaps between the lines became obvious and every body lost his position too easily. You could see the the game changed after individual mistakes - not after team and collective mistakes."
He also spoke about the need to improve the youngsters in Indian football. "We have many young players who are here for the first time. We had many 18-20 year olds, but it's not an excuse - their (Tajikistan) average age today was 22 and a half. We need to be worried about that. This Tajikistan team has beaten us with their U-23 side and they beat us well. We must think now what we did wrong in the younger ages and what we must improve and how we teach the players how to grow up," he said.
"The main problem in Asian football is a lack of concentration." --This is an interesting observation of Igor Stimac. Do you agree with it, guys or do you think that it is too sweeping a criticism of Asian football?
bhai I am not saying Narendra should never be selected again in NT due to today's performance. All I am saying is he has not anything to get selected at this stage in NT and that too ahead of Anwar. Igor made his choice to field him and we suffered.
https://khelnow.com/news/article/intercontinental-cup-2019-india-tajikistan-igor-stimac-post-match-press-conference