@ashindia Even if there was a problem at the u19 level, our team should atleast perform better against SAFF teams. How did our midfield players became like this..They have no idea where to pass, what to do.. The team is mainly using long ball strategy for long since Granatkin Tournament. Just watch any match of our team from Granatkin tournament and watch todays match. With each match, our teams performance should have improved, their passing should have improved. But I dont see any improvement. Compare this with Bibianos team. How their performance improved since their matches in Italy. The only players in Pintos team who passes well are defenders First they pass between themselves for sometime( this is the way how we develop our game from back ), then they provide long balls to wingers..This may be a good tactic against strong teams but against bangladesh
The defenders played couple of passes among themselves when their was no pressure then lofted it aimlessly either to the Forwards or the Midfielders who almost always failed to control it.
I guess we can give this match as a buffer as this was the first match of the Tournament and the ground was pathetic to be honest.
Provided,from now on they beat every opponent by a margin of at least 3 goals and win the SAFF CUP EASILY.
Unfortunately no.Nothing has changed. We look piss poor.
To be honest, the pitch looks fucked up/dreadful.I personally feel, we shouldn't send our future teams to this ground at least(huge possibility of picking injuries).
However,i don't know how much blame can we attach to pitch because we are looking bad(not even average). I have seen this team play in the past(they were not World Beaters but they weren't this bad for sure).
I am hoping that this deterioration in this gameplay is only because of the pitch(players trying to save themselves) because if this their actual standard(which i don 't think it is) then we will for sure get thumped in the qualifiers.
One thing more which i would like to say is that Our Strikers(in this team including Vikram Pratap are average and below average.They can't finish their dinner,forget about Goals)
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I guess we can give this match as a buffer as this was the first match of the Tournament and the ground was pathetic to be honest.
Provided,from now on they beat every opponent by a margin of at least 3 goals and win the SAFF CUP EASILY.
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