Indian Football Team Coach Igor Stimac (Credit: Twitter)
The Croatian coach opened up in regards to the goal-scoring points that plagued India on the continental occasion as they didn’t register a objective throughout the three group video games, however opined that the aspect would take constructive classes from the event in Qatar.
The Indian soccer workforce ended their AFC Asian Cup marketing campaign with a 0-1 loss towards the Syrian aspect on the Al Bayt Stadium on Tuesday the twenty third of January.
The head coach of the Indian aspect Igor Stimac congratulated the successful aspect and lauded their composure.
“Congratulations to the Syrian team; they deserved it in the end. They were more powerful and more relaxed in those final third moments,” the coach stated.
The loss polished off a event by which the Blue Tigers didn’t notch up a single level shedding all three of their video games.
“It was a good learning experience for us, I would say, because overall, in three games, we proved that we can compete at this level. Everybody sees what the missing points are in the Indian play: scoring goals, which comes with having good goal scorers in the team – people with confidence in front of the goal,” Stimac stated.
“We can take a good lesson from here, and in the next edition of the AFC Asian Cup, we’re going to be much stronger, definitely,” he added.
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The Croatian coach opened up in regards to the goal-scoring points that plagued India on the continental occasion as they didn’t register a objective throughout the three group video games.
“The team produced enough chances to score goals, and you all know in India why we are not scoring goals at the international level. It should happen when we start having Indian players in the centre-forward position; then, we’re going to have many more goal-scorers for the national team,” the 56-year-old stated.
Stimac additionally lauded Rahul Bheke and Subhasish Bose for his or her efficiency within the sport.
“Bheke and Subhasish were quite good today, confident in everything. Although Bheke getting booked so early into the game didn’t make it easier for him, he controlled everything and every situation in a quite satisfying way,” the coach continued.
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Stimac opined that the gameplan he headed into the ultimate Group B sport with didn’t pan out as he anticipated.
“I think our biggest problem today was that we had a clear plan to take the game into the 60th minute with a clean sheet and to bring on fresh legs, which I was hoping would give us something and make an impact on the team in the last 30 minutes, which obviously didn’t happen,” Stimac concluded.
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