(Football news) Mumbai City FC’s most recent Super Cup match saw them fall to NorthEast United FC 2-1. The game was completely controlled by the Islanders, who were unfortunate to lose to a tenacious Highlanders team.
Des Buckingham, the head coach of Mumbai City, discussed his team’s all-around performance in the match against NorthEast United. He stated, “I was pleased with how we played. All the internal measures that we have were as high, if not higher in some areas than the marks that we try and hold ourselves to. Unfortunately, the external measure, the end result was 2-1 to NorthEast. We hit the crossbar twice. We had two clear penalties turned down. We had other chances which we could’ve normally and would’ve scored. So, when I monitor and measure our performances across that game, I was. Very happy with how we played in the game.”
Des Buckingham also said, “Chennaiyin are at full strength. They’re a good team. We’ve played them twice so far this season in the league, and they were competitive games. As always, we will do what we’ve done in all the games – make sure we get ourselves as prepared as we can to do what we want to try and do.”
This season, Mumbai City FC and Chennaiyin FC have already faced off three times, twice in league play and once in the Durand Cup, with the Islanders coming out on top each time. In the three encounters versus Chennaiyin FC, the Islanders have scored 13 goals and given up 6. When asked about his expectations for the game, Des Buckingham stated, “it will certainly be an exciting one. We know, both teams are going into the game, they need to win it if they want to stand a chance of progressing. Tournament football always sets games up for an exciting 90 minutes.”
He finished by discussing how his youthful, all-Indian team has performed thus far in the Super Cup, “We’ll be doing everything we can to showcase our football and showcase how good our players can be and our team can be regardless of what players we field. Whether it’s the young ones or the older ones – I say older but we haven’t got many older ones in our squad right now – it’s a wonderful experience for them to showcase not that they are capable of competing against a good ISL team, also showcasing the style of football that we want to continue playing, regardless of what player takes the pitch.”
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