ISL 2017-18: MCFC coach Guimaraes says, team will focus on the next match leaving the loss behind

MUMBAI CITY FC suffered a 0-1 loss at the Mumbai Football Arena against Kerala Blasters on Sunday. Talking at the post match press conference, coach Alexandre Guimaraes said,

"I don’t know why they allowed play when the ball was five meters away and then let it go. And of course, then we tried to recover which is not easy because we are playing our game and they are playing their game. We tried to impose our game. When we saw that goal, we tried different ways to get a draw, but we could not. So, now we have to just think ahead to receive Bengaluru here. Because of the results that are going on, everybody has a chance."

He further added,

"Kerala did not have the chance to hurt us with their kind of game. And they got a situation, and from the beginning we tried to impose the game that we have been playing lately. Again, in the second half, they made a substitution to try a different kind of approach. But I think we handled it also and we also took some risks to draw the game. There were some situations where we knocked at the door, but could not work it out."

He stated that, Mumbai will only focus on the next clash,

"We talked about our home games being important and we should have got a point. Next, we have a clash against Bengaluru on Thursday. It is an important match as they lost also. You cannot predict anything. The league won’t be defined till the last game."

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