If Indian football wants to move ahead, it has to look past Chhetri, GSS, Jhingan, Udanta, Amrinder and Stimach.
Chhetri - Yes - Lost his pace. It bound to happen with age, and we need to look for changes. GSS - Yes. Off late, doing making at-least 1-2 blunders in a game. Udanta & Amrinder - Big Yes Stimac - Not sure
Jhingan - No. We don't have better players. Other than Anwar, name one player who is better than Jhingan.
Uzbekistan 2-1 Thailand S.Korea 1(4)-1(2) Saudi Arabia
A game of two tales: Thailand couldn't have done anything better than this. Uzbekistan players are physically stronger and has pace. Once they scored 2nd goal, they were happy to defend last 25 minutes and succeeded on that front.
Thailand goal is one of the best in tournament. Goal scorer, Supachok Sarachat plays for J-league team(1st-tier). Qatar might be having home advantage, but I think it would be a tough game for Qatar against Uzbekistan.
S.Korea vs Saudi highlights & stats will definitely prove wrong if we had watched entire match. Saudi is better team for 70+mins and Korea just had only good 20 mins (first 10 mins & last 10 mins). Not sure, why Saudi went defensive mode in last 10 mins, also substituting their captain (Al Dawsari) with Abdul Gareeb is biggest mistake. Abdul is one of the shortest players and he couldn't be able to help Saudi defensively.
Saudi doesn't have physical advantage like Iran/Iraq or none of the players are playing in top European leagues. But still, they won most of the headers & dominated S.Korea for about 70 mins.
Final verdict: After watching all these games, I feel we need to find atleast 4-5 physically strong players (who are good in air & faster) & 4-5 technically strong players and 4-5 physically & technically good players. With this combination, we can try to play more in opponent box.
Uzbekistan 2-1 Thailand S.Korea 1(4)-1(2) Saudi Arabia
A game of two tales: Thailand couldn't have done anything better than this. Uzbekistan players are physically stronger and has pace. Once they scored 2nd goal, they were happy to defend last 25 minutes and succeeded on that front.
Thailand goal is one of the best in tournament. Goal scorer, Supachok Sarachat plays for J-league team(1st-tier). Qatar might be having home advantage, but I think it would be a tough game for Qatar against Uzbekistan.
S.Korea vs Saudi highlights & stats will definitely prove wrong if we had watched entire match. Saudi is better team for 70+mins and Korea just had only good 20 mins (first 10 mins & last 10 mins). Not sure, why Saudi went defensive mode in last 10 mins, also substituting their captain (Al Dawsari) with Abdul Gareeb is biggest mistake. Abdul is one of the shortest players and he couldn't be able to help Saudi defensively.
Saudi doesn't have physical advantage like Iran/Iraq or none of the players are playing in top European leagues. But still, they won most of the headers & dominated S.Korea for about 70 mins.
Final verdict: After watching all these games, I feel we need to find atleast 4-5 physically strong players (who are good in air & faster) & 4-5 technically strong players and 4-5 physically & technically good players. With this combination, we can try to play more in opponent box.
finally it boils down to genes which always said by @goalkeepar
All we need is government approval for PIO's and/or exemptions in naturalization of foreign players. Current rules are tough for any PIO/Foreign player to show interest in our NT.
Else it is not tough to find these 12-15 players. We are more than a billion population + has diverse population in countries like USA, Canada, UAE, Saudi, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Australia, New Zealand, S.Africa, Nigeria etc., Even small countries like Oman, Kuwait, Qatar & Bahrain has considerable Indian population.
Comments
GSS - Yes. Off late, doing making at-least 1-2 blunders in a game.
Udanta & Amrinder - Big Yes
Stimac - Not sure
Jhingan - No. We don't have better players. Other than Anwar, name one player who is better than Jhingan.
S.Korea 1(4)-1(2) Saudi Arabia
A game of two tales:
Thailand couldn't have done anything better than this. Uzbekistan players are physically stronger and has pace. Once they scored 2nd goal, they were happy to defend last 25 minutes and succeeded on that front.
Thailand goal is one of the best in tournament. Goal scorer, Supachok Sarachat plays for J-league team(1st-tier).
Qatar might be having home advantage, but I think it would be a tough game for Qatar against Uzbekistan.
S.Korea vs Saudi highlights & stats will definitely prove wrong if we had watched entire match. Saudi is better team for 70+mins and Korea just had only good 20 mins (first 10 mins & last 10 mins). Not sure, why Saudi went defensive mode in last 10 mins, also substituting their captain (Al Dawsari) with Abdul Gareeb is biggest mistake. Abdul is one of the shortest players and he couldn't be able to help Saudi defensively.
Saudi doesn't have physical advantage like Iran/Iraq or none of the players are playing in top European leagues. But still, they won most of the headers & dominated S.Korea for about 70 mins.
Final verdict:
After watching all these games, I feel we need to find atleast 4-5 physically strong players (who are good in air & faster) & 4-5 technically strong players and 4-5 physically & technically good players. With this combination, we can try to play more in opponent box.
Else it is not tough to find these 12-15 players. We are more than a billion population + has diverse population in countries like USA, Canada, UAE, Saudi, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Australia, New Zealand, S.Africa, Nigeria etc., Even small countries like Oman, Kuwait, Qatar & Bahrain has considerable Indian population.
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