East Bengal played a 2-2 draw with their junior team in a practice match on Saturday. Image Source: XtraTime[/caption]Kolkata: It was just a practice game, but the way the senior team got simply outplayed against the East Bengal U18 boys in a 2-2 draw at the club ground today, the questions started to pop up regarding the responsibility of the players for one more time. The East Bengal gaffer Trevor James Morgan too became furious and disgusted to see the disappointing show of his boys against the juniors and left the club without speaking to anyone after some serious scolding in the dressing room to his players.
The Red and Gold brigade tried all their available options in three different of thirty minutes each, but young talents like Vidyasagar Singh and Prakash Sarkar tormented the senior team all the way through. East Bengal official Debabrata Sarkar said, "The players don't have any responsibility. The junior players simply outplayed the senior team today. Unfortunately despite everything, the players seemed to have no regret." He added, "The coach naturally got extremely angry and scolded the players in the dressing room. The frustration is understandable. The coach won't go and play on the ground. The players are not doing what they need to do."
Today, the coach rotated all his options to see a better show from his boys. Starting from David Lalrinmuana to Gurwinder Singh, Robin Singh, Jackichand and Romeo, the gaffer used all his guns, but nobody seemed to have the performance to please the gaffer. The East Bengal coach was seen showing his anger to the players after every thirty minutes when he was changing the teams. But the players continued to show the lacklustre attitude on the ground.
It was the juniors who took an early lead to make it 1-0 after Robert made a silly error in the defence and Vidyasagar Singh took the full toll of it as Rehenesh conceded a soft goal. In the last thirty minutes, East Bengal started to bring a few moves and got the reward when Semboi Haokip scored from a Bikash Jairu corner. Immediately after the equalizer, the U18 team again took a lead as Gurwinder made a defensive blunder and Rahul Bheke showed no intent of stopping Prakash Sarkar, as the kid made it 2-1 after Rehenesh conceded another sloppy goal. Minutes before the final whistle, Romeo Fernandes scored a deflected goal to make it 2-2 and restored some pride.
The team showed no cohesion in the midfield and continued to play their boring long ball tactics, when the young kids dominated with some free flowing passing football. The defence on the absence of Ivan Bukenya looked extremely shaky as well. The coach also tried to use a few options as Mehtab was rested, but nobody seemed a potent option to fill his void. Wedson Anselme and Chris Payne had the rehab training and not appeared in the game.
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