Saturday, September 03, 2016

Football News

At FIFA International Friendly 2016, Mumbai, India

India bt Puerto Rico 4-1 (3-1)
Goal Scored - Narayan Das (IND) 18’, Sunil Chhetri (IND) 26’, Jeje Lalpekhlua (IND) 34’, Jackichand Singh (IND) 58’ and Emmanuel Sanchez (PUR) 8' PS

In this match Puerto Rico team was without 5-6 regulars from first team as their respective European/ South American clubs didn't release them for this International friendly ... Puerto Rico team reached late for this tie due to goof-up in their flight schedule ... But I think these weren't only reasons for their loss ... Our team executed Constantine's plan perfectly on the field ... Impressed with our improved passing, our midfielders looked good, our wingers managed to give some good crosses, strikers looks improved and Gurpreet was amazing in-front of the goal ... I think this was Jeje's 7th goal in 7 matches so some terrific hot streak is going on ... I am also impressed with our dead ball skill, Constantine is working on that and Sunil Chhetri is responding with some smart/ opportunist dead ball kicking ... Still need lot of work on our defending but today's was deserving win against WR #114 Puerto Rico.

First 10 mins Puerto Rico team was superb and in that they scored a goal through spot kick but after that Indians raised their game and also played with high intensity ... We scored three excellent goals in psan of 17 minutes for taking full control of the match ... At half-time we were 3-1 leading which could be more ... We added one more goal in the second half and then gave more time on the field for our bench ... Gurpreet Singh Sandhu showed his experience of playing in Europe, he was solid in-front of the goal ... Stephen Constantin is working hard on this team and positive results are showing as we have now registered nine wins in their last eleven matches.

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