Chianese had a very unfortunate ankle sprain which looked horrible. Preseason cannot help you with that. Sastre's hamstring can be attributed to pre season. I'm taping up my hamstring myself while in recovery as I type this lol
Rohit Danu made it to subs only because of that developmental players quota. Today it's Sweden Fernandes. The other one Akash Mishra is playing. Similarly, BFC has Amay Morajkar who is also there just to fill up the quota. EB yesterday had 2 boys from Classic FA brought in by Renedy.
Hyderabad coach is chutiya.... Didn't bring Liston till now who performed very well In the last match and playing with narzary even commentators are surprised that Liston is still on the bench... Narzary wasted 3 shots till now but hyderabad coach's eyes are closed
1 thing both yest and today's match, good to see coaches having more confidence on Indian players to take up positions of foreigners & frankly hvent seen too much of a difference. With the ball movement has improved and so too touches, maybe because of the young bred of Indian players.
@rathorevarun4 playing with 3 foreigners is always risky. Point here is to play cautious and have control of the game. It doesn't make sense to bring liston early when you have already made 2 forced subs by 45 mins.
BFC are a boring predictable team. Udanta and Ashiuque offer very little in attack or defence. Sunil chettri looks totally out of shape. All they have is set peices to score which is like 50-50. If HFC had their foreigners on they would have won the match.
Ah, @G_K, good that you mentioned it. I was surprised to see both Rohen Singh and Tomba Singh present in EB's yesterday squad. So that's it, the ISL rule of including a minimum of 2 developmental players (both on or after January 1, 2020) in their squads on match-days. So, either these two and/or Harmanpreet Singh would make it to the match-day squad irrespective of the needs of the coach that day or the player's eligibility. I remember that there were charges against Renedy of pushing players from his academy into the team when Rohen and Tomba were recruited. It would indeed be unfortunate if undeserving players get into the squad through loopholes in the system. This is not the way you "develop" players.
They cunningly talk about average age of the squad in ISL teams.
If you have 6 or 7 of 30 + players which are past their prime and 2 developmental teenaged footballers who are complete novices - average age may hover around 27-28
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Didn't bring Liston till now who performed very well In the last match and playing with narzary even commentators are surprised that Liston is still on the bench...
Narzary wasted 3 shots till now but hyderabad coach's eyes are closed
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