FOOTBALL IN DETAIL

India should have started the match with a lot of confidence in them but it was the coach who was poor in the confidence, not the players. The starting formation was 4-1-4-1,  formation made it difficult for the players to adapt. It was quite visible from the 1st minute of the match, as Rahim was left alone often. Vikram had to cover a lot of the space and it was tiring with their defence in command. No chance of crossing, made it difficult for us, on occasions there was some space otherwise, the tactics completely failed. Still it was not looking poor and we were in command of the game, until the substitution of Vikram and the start if the defensive mode. They were attacking well before too hut this substitution relieved their defence from the threat of quick counter. This changed the whole game, attacks were made from the UAE side and it made Stimac to go further wrong z as he substituted a defensive midfielder for the defender. Don't raise the eyebrows, we have see t...

It all started with a draw against 10 men Bangladesh to bring us back to the regret lane. Then the draw against 205 ranked Sri Lanka made us cry but after that it looks like that we are getting our pieces back. The win against Nepal, then home side Maldives propelled us to fight for the trophy in the final. It rained and first difficult half went evenly poised. We feared that it might be the indication for the worse to come. But it never was the case until Sunil is on the pitch and his head is in sync with the winning approach, we are sorted ! As we put 2 past the Nepali defence in two quick succession, half of the work was already done. Though Nepal did tried to harm with few takes at the goal post, but it was not their day. We comfortably won the championship with 3-0 in the final. Most of the trophies went to our captain, Sunil Chhetri. The celebrations started to happen with young guns feeling the success, the build of the trophy and what they ought to do to be at their...