HFC create a lot of chances but maybe conversion could be better. They are also the fittest team in ISL for me. Huge credit to signings and the coach for turning this boring bottom placed team into one of the most exciting. Will be interesting to see them as season goes by
Hyderabad is playing as a team. There's no weak link there. All 10 outfield players are performing good.
If you see EB, foreign players always try to look for other foreign players to pass. Nothing like that in Hyderabad. All the outfield players can handle the ball.
@G_K: Absolutely...I have often seen this, particularly in the case of Pilkington and Maghoma. It seems one cannot survive without the other on the football field
All depends on coach and foreigner player mentality, While HFC and most of isl team coaches see indians and foreigners as equal and equality important, EB coach has already said Indians can't play football so he has instructed his "High Quality" foregin players to pass only to other foregin players and don't trust the Indians.
Without a specialist centre back, a specialist foreign striker, with the oldest squad in the league, when you play a 3-5-2 against the fastest team of the league this happens. Fowler's days are numbered in India, just another Teddy Sherringham, David James kind of wannabe!
The problems are aplenty, with this squad, the best you can do is park the bus from the beginning, play slow, play dirty and defend. Eek out draws, get really good at set pieces. We scored one from a set piece today. And yes, please sign a striker and a CB.
I guess Fowler must be contemplating resignation.. He is very particular about his reputation.. Won't change his style, formation despite not having the squad for that.. He would be concerned about his winning percentage stats as a coach. Today he realised how bad his plyrs are. Might handover to Terence and leave
"I just think we are a team that is built for the I-League. The recruitment process for this team was for the I-League and then we catapulted to the ISL"--Fowler said after the game.
What arrogance! Who gave him the authority to insult the I-League? Has he observed the I-League over the years? Does he even know that many of the Indians who are excelling in this ISL are I-League products? Is he aware of the quality of the I-League foreigners? Most importantly, didn't he know when he took over as as the coach about the "recruitment process" and that the team were "catapulted to the ISL"?
Shifting the entire responsibility to the players and the management only one day after saying "we will start seeing a better East Bengal"!
Agree that the domestic recruitment is poor. But what did he contribute till now? He personally recruited all the foreigners. Except Steinmann, did any one of them impress? Scott Neville was embarrassed by Liston today. Did he look like a guy with a gameplan? Is he even selecting the best 11?
He has never seen an I-League game and commenting on that. Forget away matches at Kashmir or Aizawl. Just play a match at Kolkata at 2PM. He'll know the level of I-League.
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If you see EB, foreign players always try to look for other foreign players to pass. Nothing like that in Hyderabad. All the outfield players can handle the ball.
The problems are aplenty, with this squad, the best you can do is park the bus from the beginning, play slow, play dirty and defend. Eek out draws, get really good at set pieces. We scored one from a set piece today. And yes, please sign a striker and a CB.
https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/east-bengal-robbie-fowler-squad-was-recruited-for-i-league/543pjgg22vii1rb9o8x8otzpc
What arrogance! Who gave him the authority to insult the I-League? Has he observed the I-League over the years? Does he even know that many of the Indians who are excelling in this ISL are I-League products? Is he aware of the quality of the I-League foreigners? Most importantly, didn't he know when he took over as as the coach about the "recruitment process" and that the team were "catapulted to the ISL"?
Shifting the entire responsibility to the players and the management only one day after saying "we will start seeing a better East Bengal"!
Disgraceful!!
He has never seen an I-League game and commenting on that. Forget away matches at Kashmir or Aizawl. Just play a match at Kolkata at 2PM. He'll know the level of I-League.