FC Goa kicked off their Indian Tremendous League (ISL) season with a last-gasp win over East Bengal on the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Wednesday.
FC Goa’s Brandon Fernandes scored the opening aim inside 10 minutes as Cleiton Silva equalised for East Bengal from the penalty spot. Edu Bedia’s free-kick from the half line clinched the winner within the 94th minute.
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On the post-match press convention, when FC Goa boss Carlos Pena was requested in regards to the aim being fortunate, he shot again: “No, it was about high quality. He (Bedia) is a participant who’s nice at free-kicks. He may have scored earlier than from the nook, imagine me. He delivers these corners and free-kicks very properly. You all know Edu Bedia along with his high quality. The free-kick that he took was with intention. It may have been touched by any participant or by an opponent, nevertheless it went into the web.”
Ivan Gonzalez had been pressured to come back out of defence on events to snuff out assaults in mid-field as FC Goa gamers checked out ease with the ball at their toes and beneath no actual strain. Within the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time, FC Goa gained a free kick within the East Bengal half, close to the midway line, with Ivan making one other mistake.
Edu Bedia signalled his wingers to get contained in the field, similar to he did just some minutes earlier, and everybody within the stadium knew the place he was planning to ship the ball – into the hazard zone.
He whipped in a deep ball into the field because the ball bounced awkwardly in entrance of the keeper and snuck into the again of the web with out getting a spark off of any participant.
East Bengal coach Stephen Constantine on the post-match press convention, additionally dismissed talks of ‘luck’, saying: “You possibly can’t say it was dangerous luck since you misplaced the sport, however I believe we’re looking for our identification. As I mentioned earlier than, we’re a brand new group, we’ve new gamers. We’ve had 4 precise weeks of coaching earlier than the season began. After I arrived right here, there have been solely 12 gamers in coaching. Rather a lot has occurred, and I’m not making excuses nevertheless it’s not the beginning we needed.”
Constantine added that there have been learnings to be taken away from the loss as properly, mentioning that the group slowly determining the best way they need to play the sport.
“The plus facet (of the sport) is that we are able to see the little glimpses of what we’re going to seem like going ahead (within the season), and I believed it was distinctive within the second half, and that is the form of efficiency that we’re in search of,” he mentioned.