ISL Season 8: Mumbai City FC continued their winning form with a fine 4-1 win over Odisha FC in their latest Indian Super League clash on Sunday night. Follow all the ISL 2021-22 LIVE Updates only on InsideSport.IN
Braces from Igor Angulo and Bipin Singh helped the reigning champions beat the Kalinga Warriors and regain their position in the top four. Mumbai City FC head coach Des Buckingham was very pleased with his team’s performance as he felt that this was one of their best performances this season.
“It’s been a wonderful and complete performance from a side that’s been due for a long time. We’ve shown periods over the last 14 games that we were able to play that way but the pleasing thing for me this season is that we’ve been ought to show our performances from start to finish,” the Englishman stated at the press conference.
FULL-TIME | #MCFCOFC@MumbaiCityFC leaps into the 🔝4️⃣ with a dominant performance 🆚 @OdishaFC!
The Igor Angulo-@bipin_thounajam duo put their stamp on the game 🔥#HeroISL #LetsFootball pic.twitter.com/alSu5ExIX1
— Indian Super League (@IndSuperLeague) February 13, 2022
It was a phenomenal performance from Mumbai City’s young winger Bipin Singh. He scored a great brace and also came up with a beautiful assist to help Igor Angulo complete his braace. Speaking on his performance, Buckingham was full of praise. “Bipin was fantastic tonight, but he was also complemented with a fantastic front five. The work rate, the combination play, the link-up they showed was supported very well underneath by our two 6s in Apuia and Jahouh [Ahmed], and when we can play through them, the full-backs join in. So, Bipin did extremely well with his goals and of course, the assists for the other ones.”
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Mumbai City FC are unbeaten in the last four matches and have won the last two matches. However, Buckingham revealed that his current group does not get much carried away by the results. He currently wants to build on this momentum as the tournament enters its business end of the season.
“Whenever you’re in the game, the mood does improve, but one thing I’ve been really impressed with is, this group doesn’t get carried away whether we win or lose, it’s about measuring our performances. The form right now is very good. Now, we’re unbeaten in four games and we want to build our momentum going into the final five or six games and that’s what we’ve put together over the last four games. It is important that we get ourselves ready as it will be a tough test against Jamshedpur FC in three days’ time,” the English tactician revealed.
The Islanders were a bit worried about Igor Angulo’s fitness and goalscoring woes. But the veteran Spaniard came back with a bang as he scored a brilliant brace. Therefore Buckingham hailed his main man up front.
“Igor’s a goalscorer, you don’t need to give him too many opportunities to score goals. As I’ve said before, he’s been out for a little bit of the last couple of games and that’s the reason why he hasn’t featured among the goalscoring charts much, but he’s back and he’s ready to play 90 minutes as you’ve seen tonight. He’s an excellent finisher,” he signed off.
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