Chennaiyin FC coach Csaba Laszlo faces a unique quandary as he prepares his team to take on ATK Mohun Bagan in the Indian Super League at t...
Chennaiyin FC coach Csaba Laszlo faces a unique quandary as he prepares his team to take on ATK Mohun Bagan in the Indian Super League at the GMC Stadium, in Bambolim, Goa on Tuesday.
On one hand, goals are coming from everywhere – Chennaiyin have already had six different individual goalscorers this term. On the other, the people tasked with scoring them – the strikers – aren’t finding the net often enough.
Against ATKMB, who are yet to concede from open play this season, the likes of Jakub Sylvestr will have to do a lot better if Chennaiyin are to walk away from the match with something.
Laszlo is happy with how goals are coming from different sources and stressed that it was no accident. “We have not just one goalscorer. We have (scorers from different places), from the left, right or the middle. This is also more or less down to our strategy,” he said.
But he also recognized the need for his team to be less wasteful up front. Lallianzuala Chhangte failed to hit the target from good positions all season before finally doing so against SC East Bengal, while Sylvestr has the worst conversion rate (5.26) in the league among players who have scored...
