#TFGtake: Predictions for Indian Super League Round 5 -- Watch out for the Dark Horses
WHAT HAPPENS on the field finally decides the result. No matter what kind of an analysis you do, or map each teams strenghts and wekanesses as they are pitted against each, a momnetary lapse on the field from one player of a team is all that is needed for the team to suffer and be handed a result which should hve otherwise been in their favour.
One can sit down, look at everything from collective statistics to individual numbers and deduce how the situation is going to be when two particular teams face each other. But something or the other, from silly defensive errors to refereeing blunders --can play a wild card that can alter the outcome of the game.
Take the Pune City vs Atletico de Kolkata match for example. We predicted a draw and it was that through the match. But who could have accounted for a 2nd minute goal for Pune even before ATK's defence had finished their stretches. Game won.
But that is what makes predictions all the more interesting, and dangerous. That one freaky moment, that refereeing blunder/s, that unbelievable back pass which reaches the opponent's striker.
The predictions and results of the 4th round proved that TFG's overall assessment of the teams and the games were right. We take on from there and as more clarity emerges about each team vis-a-vis players and strategies, we bring you the winners and losers of the 5th Round which commences today evening:
