Fans speak on Bagan’s poor result last night

Fans share their views on Bagan’s poor result last night. They have shared their views over yahoo group and social networking sites.

Debdeep Chatterjee: worst defense……. average midfield n surely injuries…….

Soham Kundu :One thing is to be said about our team… that is we got too much Odafa centric right from the beginning of season…. If this goes on then the future of our team can very well be predicted now…. earlier it used to Barreto and now it is Odafa… this cannot go on… football is a team game… not a one man show… Odafa is not Messi…. even Messi cannot take charge of Argentina single handedly….. we have to change this mindset of becoming  player centric…. plus we do not have anything called defence…. Also it is high time we start to look for other goalkeepers.. Sangram is out of his prime…

 Anirban Ghosh : ‎1) Average age high.. 2) Speed low.. 3) Fittness low.. 4) No specialist right back (apart from Surkumar).. 5) No quality right half.. 6) Lima is better than Snehasis, but not a good foreign recruit.. 7) No foreigner in deep defense.. 8) No specialist blocker.. 9) Weak central midfiled.. 10) Lack of ball supply to Odafa.. 11) No 2nd striker.. 12) Defenders need to learn the basics.. 13) Goalkeeping is poor.. 14) No reserve bench..

Very disappointing !!!!

– Before we scored the goal we were not playing badly at all, though nothing great
– But after the goal, we complete lost focus on the match and took it easy and game changed withing a span of 20 minutes and we could not come back into the match.
 
Lessons learnt:
   – very weak right side.. Pradeep strictly no as a right back… he can play as Central Midfielder only
 – No more Gourango on right half…. either Nabi or the young Manish should play and also senior Manish if needed.
 
Hope:
– Yesterday was a bad day in office and we would comeback strongly as a title contender and also win the 7th match

 

I won’t say poor performance. Poor student will fare according to his standard. So result is as per the quality of players we have. We cannot expect superlative performance from a poor team.

Devadeep Ghosh :

1. poor choice of 1st 11..Dhana should have been left back and Nabi right half ..with no Gourango..Nabi could have helped both Pradeep and Ashim
2. no plan b..Venkatesh got replaced (whom Pradeep was managing easily..old mate..) no  change of strategy for us.. Nabi should have been on right and Lester might not have been scot free
3. Tired kinshuk, anwar, nabi and masih..its not cricket after all..
4. absence of fit jrb..
5. sangram.. and WHEN ?
 

Saikat Bose :

1) Gouranga should be sent to Dance Bangla Dance, he deserves no place in the team.

2) Sangram and the entire defence apart from Nabi should be sent to Big Boss house. If they stay together  co-ordination can improve.

3) Sangram must go back and learn the goal keeping basics . When to step out, when to be on the goal line ; how to tackle straight ball at chest height

4) Also we have to utilise our left wing more effectively. Between Nabi and Lima, I think we have a efficient left wing which we are not utilising. If Nabi goes up, nobody is to cover him. Lima was in very good position yesterday but was not getting any final pass.

Poor squad loses face in Pune

Mohun Bagan’s bench for the 13th match against Pune FC did not have a stopper and did not have a striker in the reserve bench. Undoubtedly the squad that went to Pune was not the best one. however that wasn’t enough – a hapless defense ensured Bagan concede two goals – the first one by Jeje thanks to Sangram and Anwar – and second by Lester thanks to Pradeep. The score card will say Pune FC 2-1 Mohun Bagan. What it will not say is that Odafa Okolie failed to get even one proper through and did not get any support from the central midfield and right flank! The only support he got to an extend was from Hudson Lima.

The performance was disappointing no doubt- but it raised a concern – with East Bengal match being the next one in the season – is Bagan defense ready to meet them? It has been matches where Kingshuk and Anwar played together with Sangram behind them – and till now Anwar and Sangram have no idea about which ball to cover and which one to leave for others to cover.

In one such case Lester crossed the ball to near post from left – and Jeje headed the ball past sangram into the goal. First Sangram was not in the right position – second he failed to step out and clear the ball  – third he felt Anwar will clear the same. For Anwar he gave a judgement – and left the ball for Sangram ot clear – end result Jeje had no problem in scoring the equaliser.

The second goal for Pune happened from the right when Douhou through found Kaite – and his cross to the far post found Lester who got past Pradeep and shot the ball into the net to make it 2-1 for Pune.

There were at least 3 more occasions when Pune failed to increase the margin – and twice it was open goal miss!

Odafa scored the lone goal for Bagan and the defense failed to defend it just because the defenders had no clue about each other’s position.

Pune was undoubtedly the better of the two teams – and the scoreline was justified.

Bagan will now meet East Bengal – and East Bengal coach can be very happy to see the shape of the Bagan defense. One wonders if the inclusion of the man Bagan trusts most can change this hapless team to a winning one? Yes – Jose Barreto was badly missed in this game today!

J.C. Mukherjee Trophy won

Mohun Bagan defeated East Bengal in the final of J.C. Mukherjee T-20 Trophy today by 5 wickets. East Bengal scored 160/9. Bagan’s Laxmi Ratan Shukla(46) and Anustup Majumder(67) partnered to win for Bagan. Debabrata and Sanjib did the rest of the work. Saurasish (16/6) was the best bowler for Bagan. Earlier Mohun Bagan beat Town in the semifinal at Jadavpur University ground. Mohun Bagan scored 187/3 (20 overs) by the help of 84 runs in 51 balls of Anustup Majumdar. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala and Laxmi Ratan Shukla have both scored 33. In the reply Town only managed to score 110 in 16.5 overs. Sultan Ahmed and Shibsagar Singh of Mohun Bagan have picked up 5 & 4 wickets respectively.