Indian Coach Manolo Marquez Marquez expressed frustration with his team’s performance in the first half, feeling that they looked intimidated in the opening minutes. He claimed that the 3-0 scoreline did not accurately represent the match, believing that his team deserved to score. Marquez acknowledged that his team showed courage in the second half of the game. The Blue Tigers lost the decisive match against the Syrians on Monday in Hyderabad as the latter secured the title. Intercontinental Cup for the first time.
“I’m angry with the first half. I don’t like teams that are scared. We were completely scared in the first few minutes. Their goal was an action we could have avoided. I’m satisfied with the second half. I think 3-0 is not what happened in the match. I think we at least deserved to score. It was a very similar match to Syria against Mauritius. They have very good players on the counterattack and they killed us. We have to move on. I repeat, in the second half, not only the attitude, but the positioning, we were brave,” he said in the post-match meeting.
After an unimpressive first half, India created several chances in the second half, putting pressure on the Syrian goalkeeper. Liston Colaco unleashed a powerful shot that hit the crossbar and almost turned into a goal. Marquez felt that his team’s performance in the second half improved markedly and described it as “1000 times better.”
”At least today we had chances. The other day we hardly had any chances. Today we created some chances. We will score, yes, but today I think we can’t say anything about not having this or that player. The goalkeeper saved two or three very difficult balls. The performance in the second half is positive. The team was 1000 times better in the second half than in the first. We were very brave,” added Márquez.
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