Today's match shows the importance of midfield players for FC goa. Today our defence struggled from the beginning, because our midfield players were not performing well.
At 2-1 Juan Ferrando did not want to risk another goal in previous game.
So did not attack in last 10 minutes even after a free kick.
Wanted Rest for his key players.
Now this time at 4-0 , did not want his players to rest . Cant tolerate 6-0 scoreline or what !!.
This is not competitive football.
It is like playing for a result which is not bad in the eyes of Reliance Group staffers running Indian Football.
All goodwill generated in first two games got evaporated in last two.
Let's see what is their attitude against Al Rayyan.
Nah don't judge them like this. He is a very passionate and committed coach. He has already proven his worth. The amount of confidence given to each and every player is beyond imagination! Forget ISL some of these are GPL level players and they are literally playing toe to toe with the best teams in Asia! No big name would have made Goa perform better than this. Next 2 games would be amazing! Goa also now knows what to expect from the opponents and this time they have the confidence to fight for a win. Never would have I expected that going into Goa's 5th ACL game!
Who on Earth would have expected a team comprising of Leander,Sanson,Devendra, Redeem,Amarjit,Ishan,Romario, Princeton etc starting against Iran? They don't even get to start in the ISL. This coach gave them all the confidence. Suddenly Glan Martin, Brandon,Seriton look like players who can walk into our NT anyday.This would do a world of good for their overall confidence as well. Even in the ISL semifinals it was evident that Goa is the best team in ISL. They hadn't lost 15 plus games so everybody knew that their defense was pretty much unbreakable plus they had a great fighting spirit. Their Indian strikers were so raw and now it makes sense why Juan was giving them only minutes from the bench. Even in ISL if they find a better striker than Angulo, Goa would be an amazing team to watch! Juan made the perfect choice in choosing Ortiz because there is no way that Angulo would have covered so much ground all over the pitch like Ortiz.
Ishan will certainly fade out from indian football after this season.His touch & hold up play & headers are awful and we still have to seem him atleast make a pass . He is only running behind defenders which is never going to work against good teams and only works when opposition are despearte and leaves all the players forward . He has been lucky to a certain extent in ISL last season and question is can he repeat those numbers every season .
Getting behind Defenders is not a bad thing. but you need a special set of skills to convert that trait into a potent goal scoring machine
Look at Edilson Cavani. He is often behind the defenders. But he continously changes his directions and movement to create goal scoring space and opportunities.
Oldtimers will recall majestic Filippo Inzaghi - he literally lived his life on the last shoulder.
Ishan Pandita will need to learn and improve a lot. Just running will not help.
Goa’s starting line-up in the four-goal loss revealed a few things about Indian football. The club’s 28-member squad has only seven players with over 1,000 minutes of playing time during the 2020-21 Indian Super League (ISL) season. This includes all the four foreigners – Jorge Ortiz, Ivan Gonzalez, Edu Bedia (who didn’t play on Friday) and James Donachie – and three Indians – Saviour Gama, Seriton Fernandes and Alexander Romario. Saturday’s starting line-up featured only three of them – Gonzalez, Donachie and Romario.
A total of 1,000 minutes translates to just over 11 full matches of playing time. Two other players who had also played more than 1,000 minutes in the ISL – Igor Angulo and Alberto Noguera – had to be dropped from the squad due to the limit on the number of foreign players being four. While injuries at different periods of the season didn’t help, these numbers highlight two key things: the high level of reliance on foreign players and the short length of the Indian season.
Including play-offs in the Indian Super League (ISL), FC Goa played a total of 22 matches this season and their ISL campaign ended on March 8. Persepolis have played 20 league games prior to their Champions League games, and have yet to play a third of their league season. Before arriving in Goa, they had last played in the league on April 8. Persepolis also have additional games to play in the Hazfi Cup and Iranian Super Cup. Goa didn’t have a domestic cup competition to play in.
These domestic realities underline the already existing gulf between the two clubs. Playing against a team from far higher competitive environs and with much better match fitness, Goa would always have a mountain to climb.
Ferrando wasn’t unaware of these issues. After naming his Champions League squad, the Spaniard had highlighted the fact that most of his Indian players had needed more minutes before heading into a competition of this level. “It is a shame young Indian players have not had a proper adaptive process – that means: gaining more minutes of playing time match by match in the ISL, facing the best teams in the league and then compete on an international level. Instead, they will be facing the best teams in Asia straightaway,” he had told the club’s website.
“From a methodological and learning process point of view, this is not the best option, but there is nothing we can do about it.”
Not many expect FC Goa to go past the group stages. With only the group winners assured of knockout stage berths, and six of the 10 teams finishing second set to progress, Goa are unlikely to play more than their two remaining group games in the Asian Champions League this season. Two points from four games have showed that, with a good tactical set-up, Goa can fend off fancier opponents. With Qatar’s Al-Rayyan to play in their penultimate group game on Monday, Goa will hope their grit can make up for their lack of experience at this level. FC Goa’s last game in the group stage is against Al Wahda on April 29 and that means after six high intensity games in 16 days (April 14-29), they might not play for six months till the new Indian season begins.
We need more investigative, analytic reports like this
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At 2-1 Juan Ferrando did not want to risk another goal in previous game. So did not attack in last 10 minutes even after a free kick. Wanted Rest for his key players.
Now this time at 4-0 , did not want his players to rest . Cant tolerate 6-0 scoreline or what !!.
This is not competitive football.
It is like playing for a result which is not bad in the eyes of Reliance Group staffers running Indian Football.
All goodwill generated in first two games got evaporated in last two.
Let's see what is their attitude against Al Rayyan.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/football/flaws-of-indian-season-exposed-in-fc-goa-loss-101619269374501.html
Flaws of Indian season exposed in FC Goa loss
Goa’s starting line-up in the four-goal loss revealed a few things about Indian football. The club’s 28-member squad has only seven players with over 1,000 minutes of playing time during the 2020-21 Indian Super League (ISL) season. This includes all the four foreigners – Jorge Ortiz, Ivan Gonzalez, Edu Bedia (who didn’t play on Friday) and James Donachie – and three Indians – Saviour Gama, Seriton Fernandes and Alexander Romario. Saturday’s starting line-up featured only three of them – Gonzalez, Donachie and Romario.
A total of 1,000 minutes translates to just over 11 full matches of playing time. Two other players who had also played more than 1,000 minutes in the ISL – Igor Angulo and Alberto Noguera – had to be dropped from the squad due to the limit on the number of foreign players being four. While injuries at different periods of the season didn’t help, these numbers highlight two key things: the high level of reliance on foreign players and the short length of the Indian season.
Including play-offs in the Indian Super League (ISL), FC Goa played a total of 22 matches this season and their ISL campaign ended on March 8. Persepolis have played 20 league games prior to their Champions League games, and have yet to play a third of their league season. Before arriving in Goa, they had last played in the league on April 8. Persepolis also have additional games to play in the Hazfi Cup and Iranian Super Cup. Goa didn’t have a domestic cup competition to play in.
These domestic realities underline the already existing gulf between the two clubs. Playing against a team from far higher competitive environs and with much better match fitness, Goa would always have a mountain to climb.
Ferrando wasn’t unaware of these issues. After naming his Champions League squad, the Spaniard had highlighted the fact that most of his Indian players had needed more minutes before heading into a competition of this level. “It is a shame young Indian players have not had a proper adaptive process – that means: gaining more minutes of playing time match by match in the ISL, facing the best teams in the league and then compete on an international level. Instead, they will be facing the best teams in Asia straightaway,” he had told the club’s website.
“From a methodological and learning process point of view, this is not the best option, but there is nothing we can do about it.”
Not many expect FC Goa to go past the group stages. With only the group winners assured of knockout stage berths, and six of the 10 teams finishing second set to progress, Goa are unlikely to play more than their two remaining group games in the Asian Champions League this season. Two points from four games have showed that, with a good tactical set-up, Goa can fend off fancier opponents. With Qatar’s Al-Rayyan to play in their penultimate group game on Monday, Goa will hope their grit can make up for their lack of experience at this level. FC Goa’s last game in the group stage is against Al Wahda on April 29 and that means after six high intensity games in 16 days (April 14-29), they might not play for six months till the new Indian season begins.
We need more investigative, analytic reports like this