Last Updated: November 28, 2023, 09:29 IST
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Mohun Bagan Super Giant head coach Juan Ferrando was a disenchanted man after dropping to Odisha FC and crashing out of the AFC Cup.
Mohun Bagan Super Giant was shocked by Odisha FC of their AFC Cup 2023-24 group stage match with a convincing 5-2 loss on the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Monday.
Hugo Boumous gave Mohun Bagan SG the lead, however Odisha FC responded with three fast targets from Roy Krishna, Diego Mauricio, and Cy Goddard. Kiyan Nassiri diminished the deficit for the Mariners within the second half earlier than Aniket Jadhav and Isak added late targets in harm time respectively, to seal the win for Odisha FC.
Mohun Bagan SG head coach Juan Ferrando was a disenchanted man after the loss.
“We had some problems, some players were not 100% fit and some other ones weren’t playing due to injury. This is a part of football,” Juan Ferrando stated on the put up-match press convention.
When requested in regards to the margin of loss to Odisha, having crushed the man Indian Super League facet 4-0 of their opening AFC Cup fixture, Ferrando clarified it didn’t matter.
“The last two goals came in the 92nd and 94th minute. That is because we focused totally in attack and it’s normal. Losing 5-2 in this case is like losing by 3-2 or 6-2. A minimum for us was to at least make it 3-3 and we were only thinking of our attack because drawing the game was most important at that time. If we lose 2-5 or 1-2, it’s the same,” Ferrando stated.
The outcome sees Odisha FC leapfrog Mohun Bagan SG within the group standings, transferring to the second place. Sergio Lobera’s facet wants to beat Bangladesh’s Bashundhara Kings of their remaining group sport to prime their group and qualify for the subsequent spherical.
Ahead of the match, Bashundhara Kings got here again to beat Maziya S&RC within the dying minutes of the opposite sport. When requested if that outcome had any bearing on the gamers’ mentality, Juan Ferrando it was most likely current within the again of the minds.
“For us, we saw during the warm-ups that Bashundhara had changed the score to 2-1. So everyone knew the situation at that time. We tried to think about ourselves and do our things. Three mistakes is the reason why we conceded the goals. In the AFC Cup, we need to depend on our performance and not on the other results. This is different when we play in the ISL,” he stated.
“Before the game, everyone saw that Maziya was up 1-0. But then they changed the score in two minutes. We were thinking of our details, but it’s true that in the back of the mind we knew that result made things very difficult and that we needed to win to get into the next round,” he added.
Juan Ferrando went on to add that the outcomes towards Bashundhara Kings proved detrimental to their probabilities, particularly taking part in their dwelling encounter away in Bhubaneshwar.
“We already played at home against Bashundhara, but we couldn’t play here (in Kolkata) and that was disappointing. The results against Bashundhara were really disappointing. Everyone knows that if you lose one and draw the other game against a team, the opponent has more chances to go through,” Ferrando stated.
“After the matches against Bashundhara, the next two games became difficult because our qualification depended on the other results. But this is an international competition, it’s not possible to say that we want the trophy. You have to deserve it. Sometimes one mistake costs you and that one bad day against Bashundhara knocked us out of the competition,” he added.
