Kerala Blasters – The Hindu

Kerala Blasters at a follow session in Kochi on Saturday.
| Picture Credit score: THULASI KAKKAT

East Bengal gamers throughout follow.
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THULASI KAKKAT

After a weak present in its ISL season-opener towards Punjab FC, Kerala Blasters can be determined to get again to successful methods when it takes on East Bengal FC on the Nehru Stadium right here on Sunday.

However as soon as once more, Blasters can be with out their midfield common Adrian Luna who’s but to get well totally from his sickness. With out Luna, Blasters appeared a disjointed aspect in a 1-2 loss towards Punjab.

“We got here out fairly poor, it was a tough loss within the dying seconds, onerous to deal with however we’ve got to maneuver ahead,” stated Blasters head coach Mikael Stahre on Saturday.

“There are too many issues that we have to concentrate on. We now have to cross the midway and extra usually, with management, in order that we will carry extra numbers greater up, create extra crosses and have extra gamers contained in the field. We now have to play like a house group. We now have superb followers, we’ve got to play with a whole lot of power.”

Each Blasters and EBFC misplaced their season-opener however the Kochi aspect could possibly be below extra stress.

“We we’ve got to do an excellent job in entrance of the Blasters followers. Kerala goes to be below stress, they should combat lots too,” stated EBFC coach Carles Cuadrat.