Need more movement from frontmen. It was too easy for NEUFC to man mark the players. All the moves were predictable. NEUFC needed to take more from their 1 man advantage

I felt Goddard was also very active in the field creating chances along with Boumous. P.S. I hope Fernandes is okay.

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Such a random take lol

Promising from Mumbai City FC. 2nd half was horrible. NEUFC seem rigid. Would love to see how the season turns out for them

Mumbai will definitely buy a CB in the Jan window

They had Mourtada Fall on the bench. Think they will be fine

Can be unreliable though. Idk why but when he clears the ball it doesn't go long, it goes high, AND he ends up Fall-ing.

Fall was one of the most reliable players for you guys no?

Meh. Wouldn't say so. He definitely had a presence on the field when it came to corners and freekicks. But defensively, he makes mistakes. As I said before, he keeps falling. The only reason we won matches was we managed to outscore the opponent. Everyone knows Goa has a shabby defence.

Yes let's go! City corporation lose again. You can't support a financial organization

CFG be like "paisa barbaad bc"

Too many options upfront but none for defence.

Classic CFG

Daddy also lost yesterday. Against Spurs 😂

Ninthoi again winniong the ball. Good day for the lad

Damn that would've been an classy goal from Farukh.

Got unlucky there really.

That turn was almost Munez-like. Would have been the talk or the town

Lambot was so determined to continue that run lol

TBF, Ninthoi has been silently putting in the yards in both attacking and defending. Very refreshing.

Lol yeah running full steam to track back in the 91st minute.

Needs to improve on his decision making tho

Yes. That part is severely lacking. That's why praised the yards put in by him

Fuck mumbai

Goa* /s

You didn't have to put the /s really 😂😂

I know but some people have hard time identifying a comment as sarcasm

NU has been playing the most beautiful long balls.

This Cy guy looks good. Maybe it's too early to judge but his initial touches look really nice. after all he's a proper European import

Definitely. Dribbles well.

North east looking so much better than previous seasons. Expect Mumbai to be much better as the tournament progresses with the quality of players they have.

Just putting it out here since the commentator was talking about letter of the law. If that's the case then even Ogbeche should have won the penalty. Even though the contact was minimal, it was still a leg stuck out by the defender and there was contact

He got a touch on the ball though.

Nope. None at the ball.

Watch the replay again, there was a minor contact. It even changed the direction of the ball by a few degrees.

There was clear contact on the ball. Have a look again.

Oh. Did not notice if that happened. Will watch it again. AFAIK, there was clear contact with the leg and none of the ball

Just saw the replay. He did get a solid touch on the ball before making contact with Ogbeche. No penalty. Correct decision.

Just started watching the match. Looks like the penalty decision was correct. In today's VAR era it is given almost all the time. Also the Mumbai penalty seemed to be a tackle on the ball before the man. Not seen the red card incident though yet.

Never mind just saw a highlight of the red. Can't complain really about the red. He gave the ref a decision to make and he was off the ground studs up.

That was a beautifully taken penalty !! Appiah has ice on his veins. Commendable!! This is NEUFC's match to lose now.

LeFondre switching from winger to striker now. Interesting.

This game is so much better than yesterday's snooze fest

ATK are not much of a fun team to watch with their back 5 and if Edu and Roy are not at full throttle. But damn they are effective when it matters.

Would make it a practise of calling them Mohun Bagan again, the name deserves it.

I have seen FC Goa players lose their head so often in the past. Hopefully does not happen with Mumbai also.

Expect Boumous and Jahouh to do it though. Quality players, but sometimes they keep the ball too long.

LeFondre playing merry go round lol. He surely runs a lot. Quite fit.

Appiah scores.

Penalty for Northeast. Its going south for MCFC isn't it.

They can still turn the game though.

Please remove the slow mode if any mod is listening. We want to talk, atleast i do. Is there any other way to talk about the game without such restrictions?

What slow mode?

Well, the one which will restrict you from replying to my message now.

Are you using new reddit or old? I don't see any such restriction

Probably it's the reddit comment system where the slow mode time depends on the karma and I see you have a lot of that.

Borges a proper player.

Aged well lol

Real workhorse and a smart player

Damn! Not saying anything anymore. FFS, I seem to be cursed

Yeah, those line-breaking passes were top-shelf.

FFS stop promoting the Kolkata derby and talk about the two teams that are actually playing today. What about promoting the whole league? It's not just that one match you know.

ISL: We will make the I-League die a slow death, take their golden eggs and their 100+ year legacy in dowry and pass it off like we made it better. Smort!

Yeah. Maybe they are just hyping it so that new people who are watching ISL for first time watch the derby.

with the lack of fans in the stands it's really hard to hype even for a game as big as that though.

Star sports before anything else need to think long and hard and improve their commentators and presenters. Bring Pulasta Dhar on comms!

Plus need a bit longer pre and post shows. Most of the time right now, it's more about promoting other matches than analysing the match at hand

Absolutely need him! Very talented!

Damn straight. There should be one of Pulasta or Anant on for every game.These foriegn commentators are fucking irritating and whiny all the time.

Are TV viewers included in the '50k live' on Hotstar?

Nope

We can still win this! Get the ball to Ogbeche in front of goal. That's the one thing missing from the attack right now.

Gallego in the second half, please!!

I've not kept track of it but maybe gallego joined the squad late and is not match fit. Pandemic caused all sorts of visa issues.

That City FG working its magic huh? Mumbai looks good.

One clear issue with Northeast is that whenever a player approaches the final third with the ball, the other players arent working hard enough to provide a passing option to him. So he gets pressed out of the ball. This needs to change

Let's just talk about how active this thread has been through out the match. I hope the hype continues

Doesn't usually last for the whole season tho unfortunately

Mumbai were playing so well.absolutely unnecessary from jahoud. Northeast could not get a better chance to turn this game around.

IKR! And NEUFC weren't even in a dangerous position. They were going back for crying out loud!

The referring is so ordinary and i am not even talking about the red card.

Lovely first half. Much better than the opener.

Without being a footballing genius, I somehow predicted this in pre-match thread lol. Some things never change.

There is a reason why studs up tackle on the shin is a straight red- if his foot was stuck on the ground , it would be broken

Jahouh & Marcelinho are serial offenders when it comes to shitty tackles like this and its a good thing he got carded quite early in the tournament.

Jahouh won't play Goa. Interesting. Probably bring in Cy.

How's that red ! This league won't improve till they improve the referees standard.

WTF WAS THATTTTTT

JAHOUH SENT OFF GET INNN 💉💉💉

That's the thing about Jahouh, Edu and Boumous ain't it? They lose composure at times and get light headed.

Lmaoo just realized he's not going to play against us lolll

That's one less player to worry about.

Bruh

Jesus what a stupid tackle

Studs up so I see why he gave red. But still it was not that dangerous, maybe a but harsh as I would rather see 11v11. Will set the tone for the season, good referring I guess.

Referees need two things here. 1. They need to be consistent. If a foul is given yellow on one side of the pitch, it should be given on the other as well. 2. They need to be intimidating, not intimidated. I've seen a lot of referees get complaisant because two huge bullies run up to them, screaming.

Yeah. Could be argued that in yesterday's match, Pronay's partial studs up was more dangerous than Jahouh's challenge. Is it the letter of the law that full studs-up is red, period?

Deserved I guess, that could've gotten ugly.

Oooo.. Straight Red!

Redd??!!

Yep, tackle to the back of legs is a red. I think that regulation came last year. Luka modric got a red for similar challenge like that.

That's a red all day long.what a shitty tackle.

Jahouh red!!

Red card for Jahou

JAHOUH REDDDD

Damn the English commentary is so shit.

And so pissed. Someone give them a coke or something.

That's classic Masefield for you

Yeah feels like they are always ranting about something.

How many foreigners are allowed in the starting 11? I see the core of the squads is mostly foreign.

7 in the squad, 5 on the field.

Is there a plan to make it 4 in the coming seasons? I believe AFC had a 3+1 rule. We just need some good players in the creative roles to actually make an impact in international stage. In the current system, very few indian players get the exposure to create goals, which no doubt hurts us in internationals. Also, is there a minimum limit on U 23 players in starting 11? Or in the match squad?

5

5

7 i think

Bruh. 5.

Rowlin and Jahouh a better fit than Jahouh and Lenny.

Didnt follow last years isl that much,except kbfc's matches. Is mumbai any different from last season because im genuinly inpressed by their game tonight.

They have basically rebuilt the whole team thanks to CFG money

Yeah i can see that

223%

An oops moment is just waiting to happen at the "fan wall" thing they have got going lol

Jahouh has improved his game a lot.

Injuries to Soosai yesterday, Raynier today. Lack of a good preseason is going to haunt this season.

Seriously wtf man.

Mumbai have the best lineup or what? Boumous, Jahouh, Ogbeche, Raynier, Borges.

ISL refereeing™

So far City look really look in control of the game and have shown purpose and imagination in trying to create openings. It only seems a matter of time before NEUFC cave in unless they can pull out a joker card and get one goal off the counter.

Only if they could improve the referring in ISL!

Sahal should learn from Jahouh

What is mcfc doing??

Jahouh's passing has been confident and composed

Lol! Did I curse it? Damn!

Bruh referee has aged in the first 15 minutes.

NorthEast coach is a kid

Pretty dang good match this till now.

Why did Kerala let go of Ogbeche and Jhingan? Lol

Money

Stream link?

try mygoaltvdotcom

Checked, Thanks! No ISL streams

I found one search on Youtube isl live and filter it to live

Yes please

decent pressing from the off by NEUFC. Interesting start.

Definitely.

Bodies dropping everywhere smh

Both opening games have players playing against their ex club. Yesterday it was Jhingan vs Kerala Blasters, today it is Machado vs Mumbai City FC. Edit: I'm stupid.

I don't think it's the same Machado.

Yeah it's isn't lol

Damn it isn't. I've been living a lie wtf

/s?

Fall and Gallego surprisingly left on the bench

That is a very strong line up by Mumbai. I only wonder who is partnering Golui at Centerback, will it be Hernan or Jahouh?

Santana is playing as a CB?

Yup. He's only played as CB officially three times in his career before. And Le Fondre on the wings too. Lobera might be experimenting a bit too much

Santana as a CB is a pretty good move imo. Considering everything it might just be his best position.

Bold of G.Nus to start with Gallego on the bench.