I'm in the stadium along with @ashindia. With current set of players, even coaches like Pep & Klopp can't help Indian football National team.
To be fair, 3-0 scoreline is very harsh on us. We created good no of chances & could have matched their scoreline & always threatening.
Technically only their foriegn attacking midfielder looks good, other Syrian players are on par with us from technical perspective. But almost all their players are very strong & fast and our players couldn't able to match their pace. Syrian Goalie (European player) had an excellent game , even their C.B's blocked many shots & intercepted final passes.
First, we need to sack our Gurpreet, Poojary & Nandan. Gurpreet could have done better for 2nd & 3rd goals. Poojary is unable to mark/defend. Nanda Kumar is too slow for N.T.. I don't think he will have so much of time like in ISL to score a goal even against teams like Bangladesh. Also it's better to give chances for younger players in N.T instead of relying on M.B fwd players (Mandeep & Liston ) . I feel out of form Mahesh is miles better than Nanda Kumar, half-fit Brandon is way better than Anirudh (not played against Syria). Also Jeakson has much better composer than Apuia & Sahal. Players like Chhangte, Anwar , Rahul, Suresh, Jeakson & Bose may have bad days. But they always had character & fighting spirit. Asish rai looks more matured player than Jay Gupta, but still raw & needs to play few more N.T games.
Final verdict, we can't move forward with these set of players. Almost all N.T exploring foriegn based players. Currently Indonesia has 6-7 Netherland players & 3 other European /American players.Unless, we include PIO in NT, nothing is gonna happen in next 15-20 years.
They are getting old, few do not play in natural position and most of them are not fit to play at International level
Drop Liston, Sahal, Nandha and Jay Gupta who are not playing upto mark or giving their 100%. Unless they improve they shouldn't be in NT setup
Absolutely. What our coaches have in mind when they pick these players? Have not they already had enough time to prove? Isn't it obvious now with them we can no longer move ahead. So why not look beyond. Intact a proper coach would have even given chance to few u7, u20 players who impressed in nextgen cup. I no longer want these people in national team please
We are not able to score goals That is a problem In last 30 years we had services of Vijayan, Bhutia, Chhetri .
Current team is missing that one player who could score.
We don't need next Vijayan, Bhutia & Chhetri..
Let's just try to find next Paul Ancheri & Jeje.. Ancheri always threatening & scored goals even after playing out-of-position. Most of us knows, Ancheri is good & has better positioning.. But now I feel, Jeje is always under-rated.. Jeje is always great inside the box including positioning , striking & also have great understanding with Chhetri & other mid-field players..
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Intercontinental Cup 2024 | India 0-3 Syria | Full Highlights
To be fair, 3-0 scoreline is very harsh on us. We created good no of chances & could have matched their scoreline & always threatening.
Technically only their foriegn attacking midfielder looks good, other Syrian players are on par with us from technical perspective. But almost all their players are very strong & fast and our players couldn't able to match their pace. Syrian Goalie (European player) had an excellent game , even their C.B's blocked many shots & intercepted final passes.
First, we need to sack our Gurpreet, Poojary & Nandan. Gurpreet could have done better for 2nd & 3rd goals. Poojary is unable to mark/defend. Nanda Kumar is too slow for N.T.. I don't think he will have so much of time like in ISL to score a goal even against teams like Bangladesh. Also it's better to give chances for younger players in N.T instead of relying on M.B fwd players (Mandeep & Liston ) . I feel out of form Mahesh is miles better than Nanda Kumar, half-fit Brandon is way better than Anirudh (not played against Syria). Also Jeakson has much better composer than Apuia & Sahal. Players like Chhangte, Anwar , Rahul, Suresh, Jeakson & Bose may have bad days. But they always had character & fighting spirit. Asish rai looks more matured player than Jay Gupta, but still raw & needs to play few more N.T games.
Final verdict, we can't move forward with these set of players. Almost all N.T exploring foriegn based players. Currently Indonesia has 6-7 Netherland players & 3 other European /American players.Unless, we include PIO in NT, nothing is gonna happen in next 15-20 years.
Rahul Behke, Subhashish Bose, Manvir Singh, Gurpreet Sandhu, Poojary, Thapa
They are getting old, few do not play in natural position and most of them are not fit to play at International level
Drop Liston, Sahal, Nandha and Jay Gupta who are not playing upto mark or giving their 100%. Unless they improve they shouldn't be in NT setup
That is a problem
In last 30 years we had services of Vijayan, Bhutia, Chhetri .
Current team is missing that one player who could score.
Let's just try to find next Paul Ancheri & Jeje.. Ancheri always threatening & scored goals even after playing out-of-position. Most of us knows, Ancheri is good & has better positioning.. But now I feel, Jeje is always under-rated.. Jeje is always great inside the box including positioning , striking & also have great understanding with Chhetri & other mid-field players..
Remedy Singh
Abhishek Yadav
Even they were able to score