Well done Chennai
in defeating Goa today by 4 – 0 goals.
Though not exceptionally talented team, Chennai played more as a cohesive
unit with accurate passing and finishing appropriately where the hat-trick hero
Mendonza proved to be unstoppable in the opposition citadel. Elano was the brain behind his team with
distributing the ball to his colleagues very nicely and very cleverly. The goal
he scored was just a superb piece of his cool temperament and accuracy. To sum
up, Chennai outplayed their host in every department of the game thereby making
mockery of the training methods of Zico who surely will have to devise better
methods to move forward.
The whole weakness of
Goa remained on their faulty defence especially right side thru which all the
moves were initiated by Chennai attackers.
Brazilian Lucio was more responsible to feebly guarding his territory,
he was very slow in his clearance even near the goalmouth. In the
World Cup match he did such mistake and conceded an easy goal. The other defender Gregory proved to be a
pale shadow of his previous self. These
once big names have crossed their limit to produce exciting and interesting
soccer, they are now a liability on their team.
The so called golden
duo of Goans namely Mandan and Romeo were more like spectators, there was no
killing insticts in them. Romeo was not
Vasco’s Andrew and Mandan was not Visitacao Lobo of Sesa Goa and as such both
of them have failed to deliver the goods.
The only exciting move of Goa was the release of powerful right footer
15 minutes before the final blow by Reinaldo that hit the inside part of the
pole and rebounded into the play.
It was a pity that Goa
could not take advantage of the home ground to get the maximum points to the
chagrin of the vociferous home crowd.
Unless there is total change in the methods of play, Goa is bound to
fail miserably with the type of soccer it dished ot today.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
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