ISL Season 8: SC East Bengal again suffered a 1-0 defeat against Kerala Blasters in a game where both teams were pretty equal. The Yellow Army just somehow managed to score a header from Enes Sipovic and earned all three points in a hard fought Indian Super League encounter. The Red and Golds head coach Mario Rivera felt that they should have been much better in setpiece defending to avoid the defeat. Follow all the ISL 2021-22 LIVE Updates only on InsideSport.IN
It was Lalthathanga Khawlhring’s delivery and Enes Sipovic’s header that saw the ball end up on the back of the net for SC East Bengal. The Red and Golds are winless in their last five fixtures in the Indian Super League.
FULL-TIME | #KBFCSCEB@KeralaBlasters re-enter into the 🔝4️⃣ with a win over @sc_eastbengal, courtesy Enes Sipovic's first #HeroISL goal 💪#LetsFootball pic.twitter.com/yNmviX5vsF
— Indian Super League (@IndSuperLeague) February 14, 2022
Speaking about the Rivera highlighted how he thought his team could have at least got a single point from the game. “Yes, of course. We did very well today, we defended well. We attacked well and created chances. They didn’t create chances, we stopped all their counterattacks. But once you get a set piece, you can lose a match. This is football for you. The goal came from a set piece,” the Spaniard said at the press conference.
“You always have to be better in the set-piece. We’re not bad in the set-piece, we defended well and scored goals from the set-piece as well. But you can always improve in the set-piece,” Rivera added highlighting how teams can defend well but still, they need to work on their setpiece defending.
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Rivera had to make some changes to the starting lineup in this match as Marcelo Ribeiro, Darren Sideol and Arindam Bhattacharya missed out among many players. He highlighted how the Brazilian striker in injured while Arindam and Sideol are down with fever and are isolating.
“Marcelo got injured in the last match so he didn’t recover on time to play. But for Arindam and Darren, they are on rest as they are down with fever and are sick. So they couldn’t play. They are in their room and isolated because we don’t know if they can pass the virus to the players and so we’re taking care of that,” Rivera revealed.
Lastly, the Spanish tactician reiterated the same of winning the next match despite having a few matches left in the current season. “Yeah, it’s always the same we will try to win the next match. We are not thinking if three or two matches are remaining. We want to win the next match, we will come stronger. Hope we will be a little luckier next time,” Rivera signed off.
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