The competitiveness of the ISL !

Indian Super League, as it's history is putting out surprises yet again.

Where favourite teams are getting beaten comfortably, coaches are resigning mid season, change of teams by the coaching staff and especially the ever changing points table.

Every league certainly amounts to the points table as, it shares the details of it's process and an idea how teams are performing.

But, in a league with only 11 teams and only round robin matches, the margin between the top and the bottom is a two wins away.

This shows the competitiveness of the league.

Every team wants to get more out of it and win the league shield with the lottery jackpot, the champions league spot.

Though, as usual this season started normally till the refree controversies, trolling of the fan favourites and successive defeats for the large spenders.

With ATKMB, struggling enough to make the most successful coach in the league to resign from the spot.

And it made many wonders how the season will progress until the professor from the rival club joined them, Juan Ferrando.

The hiest for the FC Goa, is now a more difficult as their key men left mid journey.

But positives, they can have that no more release clauses can haunt them.

With ever present Derrick Sir, they have an experienced person at the wheel, and the supply line filled with the known faces it would be easy for them to adjust.

The trust in the process for Bengaluru FC is on the brink of collapse if they don't succeed against the machans on 30th December, it would be a do or die situation for Bengaluru especially as their struggles are still in the continuous.

Players are not performing as they should have, defence leaking goals due to their mistakes doesn't add anything better to the profile. They need to step to finish this season better, with 12 games in hand anything is possible.

Jamshedpur FC seems to very sorted with their overall performance, finally they have a player who can match the speaking speed of Owen Coyle.

Greg Stewart is the name of that player, fast can dribble, shoot and score.

Nightmare of the every defense and so every team must not sleep while he is there on the pitch.

Kerala Blasters Fc in the last two games have shown that 3-0 score us definitely a good thing to achieve even with the Indian player in the defense.

With their attacking formation and understanding between the players, nothing is going wrong for the moment.

Solid improvements in the refreeing certainly have calmed them too, jokes apart they can surely trust in the Ivan to deliver more and sustain it.

Odisha Fc made a solid start with 3 wins and their owner tweeting often after that but then 3 losses have halted their progress.

It would be a intersting to see, how Kiko would change the fate with Jesus and his kissing assist on their side.

Probably they would hope to get back to the better game they were displaying before.

With the bunch of talent and experience, they can do well given that they have a space to think upon and react now.

Northeast United, have played quite good as many players were injured in their team, with Gellago out of the space, their team performed well and got two wins.

Currently on 7 points in 8 games, they have 12 games in hand to repeat the last year's success.

Probably january transfer window will bolster their squad and push them enough to register wins and do well.

The strongest defense till now of Chennaiyin FC got the holes to fill last night, with their firepower upfront is not performing well, weakening of the defense not a good sign for them.

Their team certainly have players to perform better and score goals but it somehow resembles that Lazlo is still in them from the last season as the misfiring continues.

They can do better given the space now they have, probably one of the top 4 contenders but only they sustain themselves well from the attacks.

Hyderabad FC is continuing from where they left and a team to beat.

They have a bunch of experienced players guiding this young team.

Also the defense is also very much same, with Akash and Ashish adding solidarity to it .

This team certainly a great team and on their day, they can score even 5 but a problem is stop start, with draws hampering them.

Had they been clinical upfront, they would have been at the top.

Team certainly needs to do ot more often if they want to add semifinals feat in to their progress.

SC East Bengal Fc is certainly a tree which is in it's shedding process, already 8 braches less from the last season, they now cutting 5 more to get fresh ones from the january spring.

It is quite evident that this team looked great on paper until they took the field.

With midfield, attack and defense dis  jointed  often, language barrier harms the joining thread, here it is the coach.

Now, with last position on the table, they are hoping to do better and thinking of replacing players to get few to work out for them.

It would be interesting to see how they progress because it is already the end if they don't step up to improve.

Mumbai City FC , double prize winners and heavy machines are still doing great.

Sitting at the top with 15 points, quite evident that they are still the favourite.

But often their engines broke out on occasions where other team presses high.

Losses against HFC, KBFC tells us the story that a tank full doesn't guarantee that you will win the race, it is the shift of the gear which is the deciding factor.

For MCFC it is important not to lose on occasions and lose points as other teams will catch up in no time.

If you have everything but still not at the top, not a good scenario for it.

Overall this season is surely a treat to watch as every match brings interesting stats for the analysers and for fans to write, tweet and comment.

Indian Super league, at it's best!