Pune City's Vladica Grujic wary of 'energetic and confident' Bengaluru FC
Table toppers Bengaluru FC, who have already qualified for the playoffs, are set to host FC Pune City at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on February 16.
The assistant coach Vladica Grujic showered praise on Pune's opponents but made it clear that they want to ensure qualification as quickly as possible.
"Bengaluru is the best team in ISL right now. We have one more step to take to participate in the playoffs and tomorrow we want to take that. We know how difficult an opponent Bengaluru FC is but we trust in our own qualities as well," stated the Serbian assistant coach.
He said that Albert Roca's men are excellent in all departments on the field and the fixture congestion will not be a problem for Bengaluru. He also acknowledged Bengaluru's prowess from set-pieces but reminded that Pune will be prepared to deal with them.
"I have forgotten when they last lost a match. The Bengaluru team is energetic and confident. In Pune, we were the better team until Baljit got the red card. We know we can play strongly and we will do that tomorrow to conceal our participation in the playoffs.
"I am not sure but I think every second game they score from set-pieces and you can only try to stay close to them and prevent them from scoring from set-pieces," signed off Grujic.
FC Pune are currently second-placed on the table with 28 points from 15 matches.
This ISL shows the intent of some of the teams and their owners.While some of the owners like BFC and JFC have shown intent by spending on quality, teams like FC Goa and NEUFC which are supposed to be hotbeds of football with most players coming from these two regions have spent very little with their results for all to see. It is thus evident that owner s like John Abraham and Casino king jaydev Modi are running teams out of compulsion and not out of passion.
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ATK presents P. C. Sarkar vanishing act:
All “dustu lok” (aka bad guys) V-A-N-I-S-H
26/11/17 (Pune City FC) – 32,816
23/12/17 (DDFC) – 22,478
03/01/18 (FCG) – 19,626
25/01/18 (CFC) – 10,065
28/01/18 (JFC) – 11,663
03/02/18 (BFC) – 5,295
08/02/18 (KBFC) – 4,292
One city, no team in ISL. Wake up AIFF – IMGR.
You can fool some people for all the time, all people for some time; but not all people all the time!
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Pune City's Vladica Grujic wary of 'energetic and confident' Bengaluru FC
Table toppers Bengaluru FC, who have already qualified for the playoffs, are set to host FC Pune City at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on February 16.
The assistant coach Vladica Grujic showered praise on Pune's opponents but made it clear that they want to ensure qualification as quickly as possible.
"Bengaluru is the best team in ISL right now. We have one more step to take to participate in the playoffs and tomorrow we want to take that. We know how difficult an opponent Bengaluru FC is but we trust in our own qualities as well," stated the Serbian assistant coach.
He said that Albert Roca's men are excellent in all departments on the field and the fixture congestion will not be a problem for Bengaluru. He also acknowledged Bengaluru's prowess from set-pieces but reminded that Pune will be prepared to deal with them.
"I have forgotten when they last lost a match. The Bengaluru team is energetic and confident. In Pune, we were the better team until Baljit got the red card. We know we can play strongly and we will do that tomorrow to conceal our participation in the playoffs.
"I am not sure but I think every second game they score from set-pieces and you can only try to stay close to them and prevent them from scoring from set-pieces," signed off Grujic.
FC Pune are currently second-placed on the table with 28 points from 15 matches.