Des Buckingham deserves credit for these results with fairly average Indian players. The quality of football was very pleasing at times. He took the difficult decision of immediately removing Cassinho after his non impactful performance in first game and replaced him with Diego. Once Igor Angulo performed equally bad against Al Shabab he brought Diego back in. Diego Mauricio's physical hold up play was a game changer!
1 more thing while going in attack. When Jahou started pressing in front, opponents started loosing in dangerous positions, giving a slight advantage to mumbai. I am happy that Apuia is getting to learn from him and in some cases i have seen him successful as well. Des tried the same thing with Reyner against AlShabab but he was running aimlessly and didn't even touch the ball at first instance. It was a tactical blunder which cost them 6 goals. Jahouh is dangerous upfront but equally dangerous to own tema when he sits just in front of his defenders, because he looses the ball very often due to his attitude.
Can someone share the ma rankings and performance of resp clubs forbthose rankings. In 2022 Malaysia, hongkong, Thailand, tazakistan all having higher ratings than India even after mumbai fcs performance. Sounds an alarm for national team cause clubs performance more or less reflects how national teams will fare in afc competition
Johor didn't thrash the Japanese teams. They had 2 very good results against the Japanese teams..this time as always they had some very high profile foreigners playing for them who scored all these crucial goals..either ways it's very impressive to see them move to the next stage. Similarly BG Pathum and Kitchen have also advanced but Johor's group was the real one
So, which set of lucky South Asians are gonna win the chance to get voluntarily slaughtered by an Uzbek club this time?
This is the problem with most South Asians. We feel inferior and accepting defeat without even kicking the ball.
Though I agree Indian clubs/NT suffered against Uzbek teams. Reason might be they are technically superior & quick. But with proper game plan, Indian clubs can defeat Uzbek clubs in AFC cup. I have watched AFC cup final against Al Muharraq and Bahrain defense decimated their attack. Even Uzbek players struggled against Ahal (Turkmenistan) & Lee man (Hong Kong).
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Though I agree Indian clubs/NT suffered against Uzbek teams. Reason might be they are technically superior & quick. But with proper game plan, Indian clubs can defeat Uzbek clubs in AFC cup. I have watched AFC cup final against Al Muharraq and Bahrain defense decimated their attack. Even Uzbek players struggled against Ahal (Turkmenistan) & Lee man (Hong Kong).