 So we're going to talk about 80K Mohan Bagan and Mumbai City FC. What do you think of Jyadi sir? When his last clash happened for the league, Mumbai City 1-1-0, that was also a very tactical kind of affair. And I'm guessing the final and you know as history always shows finals are generally very tactical affairs. They're very closed, you know. It's the end of a long season, it's the end of a long bubble full season and it all comes down to this. What are you expecting in the final? See, given the fact that the two best teams have made the ISL finals. The two teams who have spent maximum money have made the final. That way, both teams have the money. And both teams have almost equal strength. If 80K Mohan Bagan can boast of Roy Krishnan and David Williams, then Mumbai also can boast of Hugo Bumos and the other fellow. What is his name? They have also some very, very fine players they have. Both of them have similar strength. But only two things I will say. First, since in both the clashes this year, this season, Mumbai have got the better of Mohan Bagan. Both matches they have won. It is now 2-0 for them in two matches. One-0 and two-0, they have won both the matches. So, there is no doubt given their recent past record, I would say, I would give Mumbai at least, I would say it is 51-49 in favour of Mohan Bagan in Mumbai. But again, for 80K Mohan Bagan, you can always turn around and say, how do you know you won't be third time lucky? Sir, they have won. They have done something that no Mumbai team has done. Neither the coach nor their players have done it. They have gone there and they have won titles. And they have done it with this team. A majority of this team were part of the title winning team last season. And the coach, the coach has won the title twice, I think. Yeah, I would say Mumbai's biggest victory in this league is that in both matches, 90 plus 98, 180 minutes they were able to keep Roy Krishnan in check. That itself is a huge achievement, I would say. For a man who has not only scored 14 goals, but I think he has been, he has been also involved in at least five, half a dozen assists. He is an equally good man in the frontline to help his other colleagues to score goals. To keep him in check for 180 minutes is not a small thing. And for a team which and Mumbai defense has not done something extraordinary this season. They have, they have considered a lot of goals in the at least in the second phase. They were considering some goals which were very unexpected. But somehow against Mumbai, against Etika Mohan McGahn, the strategy has come through. Somehow, Lovera has seen through the Mohan McGahn tactics to an extent. But you know, it's interesting you say that sir. It's interesting you say that Dave kept Roy Krishnan because, so I was going through the last game they played, that Mumbai 1-1 nail, where Ogbay Chen had scored a goal. He did not play with Le Fondre. And with this, tactics begin. Let me show you. So the team in orange is Mumbai City FC. No, sorry. The team in orange is Mohan McGahn, Etika Mohan McGahn. The team in white is Mumbai City FC. Mumbai City FC lines up as a 4-2-3-1. You have two stop-up backs here, which is generally Hernan and Murtada Fall. In that game, they played with Mandar. But Mandar had a horrible game that time, I remember. And on the right, they have Ameh, the boy who was playing for Bangalore United and has joined them from the second division. Up to over here, they had Rollin Borges and Jahu, who keep oscillating because when they shift, they come in between here to play in the ball, in the box over there with them. And over here in the hole is their main playmaker, who's also created the most chances for them. And here is Bipin Singh, who's been one of the finds of this season. He's been really good. And here on the right, they were playing Saikotar. And ahead, they played Ogbe Ching. Now, when you talk about Mohan McGahn, this is where I feel that Habas got it wrong, sir. How he got it wrong? Because he set up as a 4-5-1 in the last game versus Mumbai City FC. Four defenders are Sandesh and Teri. Then here, on the right, they had Preetam Kotal and Shubhashish Bosch. Shubhashish Bosch was playing left-footback. Here, they had Glenn Martins. So this is not the last game where they beat them for the title. This is the one before that when Ogbe Ching scored. This is that one where they played for the order. Glenn Martins was here. They played a five-man midfielder. You had Garcia, you had Javi and then you had William and you also had Manbir on the right and you had Roy Krishna up front. So what they did was, they set up completely for the counter-attack versus Mumbai. So what happens is that when they are setting back in defence, this is how they are playing. So Mumbai is attacking. Here is your striker Ogbe Ching. Here is Bumu. Here is Bipin. Here is Kotal. And they moved up. One of these guys always stays back. Here they are. And this is the Vedya. Krishna was always left alone. And I can understand why they played that card because like we mentioned Krishna has been one of the players of the tournament in the two seasons that he's played. I think he scored more than 29 goals or somewhere around that. So the point they were trying to do is suck them all in because Mumbai likes playing possession football. Try sucking them in. And even if it's a 3-B-1, wherever you won the ball, Bumu launched it forward to Krishna. And because Krishna has that, what if you take that chance and go here, Krishna will go here. And this is where they scored. How did they score? Whenever they launched forward, your Mohan Bagan or your Mumbai City players were winning the ball. And as you know, everyone is behind. In this area, no one was coming to win the ball. So what that meant is someone like a hernan when he's moving with the ball, no one is pressurizing them. No one is pressurizing at all. And so they could easily move the ball. And Mumbai, in that day, had 67% possession. 67% possession versus one of the best teams in the league. How they scored that goal was also a result of the same thing. They broke this time with Roy Krishna up front. And another player was breaking from here. Prabhi Das broke from here. And they had another player up front. So it was a four-man attack that happened versus Mumbai. Mumbai's players were here. Like this. And the ball straight away goes to Guru. The fullback whose Kotal was up front. So it was pretty much like a four versus four, five versus four that was going on. Or Beche, the striker that he is, because he's a very smart thinker. You see in his movement. He just pulled to the left. Because there was no fullback here. Your players came in. They played a one-two. And he played it out to Beche, who just had nothing to do but to put it in the top one. He put it in the top corner. Now, why I feel, because after seeing that semi-final versus Northies United, he changed it, sir. If you see for Mohan Bagan, he played a 4-4-2. And I think 4-4-2 perfectly suits his team. A 4-4-2 is perfect for the kind of team he has, for the kind of talent he has. So here they were. There was Williams and Roy Krishna. And I honestly foresee them doing this. Mumbai will set up the way they are. They'll set up. Which is 4-2-3-1. Which is these two guys here. Whether he plays Rainier or Borges, we don't know. I think he's going to go with Rainier. Because he's been playing Rainier a lot more. Here's Bumu. Here's these guys. And instead, what they'll do is, they'll go with Godard. Sorry, with Adam Lefondre. Now, the only reason I feel it will work is, because again in the final, sir, Habas will sit back. He will sit back. He will say, put some pressure on us. The only difference being, is by the two guys ahead. You'll see. So when the two guys are ahead, if you win the ball here, these two guys, and generally we see in the morning, Borges is getting a little leeway. Where he got a little leeway, and the ball came. In 2-3, Williams and Roy Krishna, you will always back. To trouble these guys. Last game, Roy Krishna was not able to do anything on his own. In 4 vs 2, I think they will have a real problem with them. Especially given that Subash is Borges, and given the option. So what they'll do is, from a 4 man defense, they'll turn into a 3 man defense. And here, I think, what's going to happen in the game? It should be a real thing. What do you think? I think because 4-4-2, given the prowess of Williams and Krishna, you have to play them together. And the way they combine with each other, they will always cause problems with defense. Tell you something. Unmute. As you were right, you were absolutely right, that why 80 km on the ground? For any Indian team, 4-4-2 is the best policy. Yeah, yeah. It's the simplest and the best formation. Yes, formation. Everyone's mind goes into it, but we have to play like this. Baichung Bhutia once said, Bob Houghton told him, that even if you are playing at the back of your home, with children, please play 4-4-2. That is the best thing an Indian team can do. Don't go ahead of it. So this is the same thing, from my point of view. They have 4-5 foreigners, they also have 6 Indians. So for them, I think 4-4-2 is the best. Because sir, Manveer will also bomb you. Manveer's habit is to go ahead. Manveer will bomb you. If you have a player here, will he save you? If he doesn't give too much leeway, I don't think he will give as much leeway as he was giving in the first matches. If he doesn't give so much leeway, then he will go ahead and trouble you. Here, sorry, I made a super gun in the middle. If you played Wignesh in the last game, here, Wignesh, it will be really interesting to see what happens. Because the thing is, when they lose the ball in this situation, then it will be interesting to see how quickly Mumbai get on that. Because Mumbai's habit is not to go so fast. Their thing is to play something with Bumu, they will have Lafondre, then they will have one of these guys coming in here to make their passes. Generally, what I have seen, that we are operating, is the overload. So what they will do, and Bumu plays a very big part in that. Their overload is basically if from the right they are playing, this is after Lafondre because he is a lot more mobile than off edge. So he is doing this. He is making his runs. Bumu is always playing to whichever side the ball is. Especially when they are up in attack, so when they are up in attack, they will overload from here. They will fill everybody here. One guy will come here and they will come inside. This is because football moves like a chain, defense moves like a chain. This is the pass they will always look at. This diagonal ball. This diagonal ball came from here. They made an overload. These are the two players who will come inside. They have a decent amount of mobility because of Bipin and Vignesh particularly when they play. So the overload that you are doing just now where the fullback moves up into the wingers part what they also do is they interface that play quite a bit. And I think one of the top goals that I have seen Mumbai City score this season was an example of this where the ball was played out from by that guy on the right was, I think, Boomu in that case all the way across to the other wing where Bipin was receiving Vignesh was making the run inverted wingback run and so he found himself nicely inside the 18 yard box that first time what a goal that was incredible goal like top level world class goal so definitely this is the shape that both teams look at playing in the finals because you would back your strength you wouldn't say I am just saying that is backing their strength because their strength is sucking sucking sucking and boom will only happen when you have two guys not one Roy Krishan but you have a Williams with him and then together these even if you have four defenders I would still give them a 50% chance to trouble those defenders because they come out with so many pace and they have so many connections it's a final I will first save my goal I won't go to the goal so what do you think 4-4-2 is a very expensive football because off late they have also been playing football where they are keeping the ball holding it, keeping it in possession Hawas is from the very beginning we know he is a safety first coach which is very practical he doesn't bother whether you tell him that he plays ugly football there is no beauty in his kind of play he doesn't bother once three points at the end of the day but I think in this match Arjun we should also discuss one point apart from the way the field will be set up and the way the players will move up and whether Prabhid Das will be able to give his ball properly or apart from all these things I think the set pieces will also play very big Sir, for the Mumbai more than 50% of their goals they have conceded from set pieces but they scored also they scored also the last match which Mohanmugan lost to Mumbai 2 ATK Mohanmugan lost to Mumbai 2-0 if you remember the first goal it was a I think Hoogaboo was free-kick which both of the four came from TATIs behind and scored even the second goal it was parried away by Arindam and then Ogbecha came and headed in so I think the set pieces will also play a very big role and same goes for the same goes for ATK Mohanmugan also I think in the last Mumbai match up to 60 or 70 minutes Habas kept Marcelino in the feed though Marcelino was not doing very well I think that was my feeling one of the reasons were because of Marcelino's ability to take very good set pieces True perhaps he persisted with with the hope that he will score from one of the set which finally didn't happen that's a different issue altogether but I think set pieces also can because both the teams ATK Mohanmugan defence we know is always very good at least it was till two matches back till in the last three matches they looked quite sometimes shaky against Rabad against Mumbai both unfit and Tiri looks little slower I don't know Tiri was not at his best I don't know what could be the reason and Arindam also is bit shaky Arindam's performance also dipped but at the same time at the same time Mumbai defence also is not a great shake we have seen so I think field goal is of course field goal everybody will look for but if it doesn't happen if both the parties close their doors then in that case I think set pieces which lot of matches all over the world set pieces make all the difference so here also set pieces can make a lot of difference I just have a question for both of you Annie you want to get into the only team with a dedicated set piece coach is not in the final sorry not in the final not in the I League not in the I League I am just saying that when you talk about Mumbai City FC a lot of that play and whatever is directed in that play is with these two one is Raolyn or could be Rainia so Raolyn slash Rainia and one is Jahu who we always talk about if we saw at the start of the season teams tried marking Jahu you had a player who was trying to mark Jahu but what that does is then it sort of helps open up the wing for Mumbai it helps open up the wing for Mumbai and you play into their hands because then they shift they move they move they overload and you can always you know because they have that ability to stretch passes move passes you think someone is going to be marking Jahu because he is going to be seeing the maximum amount of role for Mumbai City FC there is no doubt about that would you put a marker on him or would you put a marker on him for 10 minutes no I think if a team is I mean a lot will depend on finally how they decide to line up on match day but if a team is shaping up in such a way that they are planning to hold the ball for long periods and build moves over 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 passes rather than like a 2, 3 pass goal and you know for a fact that this guy is the guy who is going to be directing that movement because then I would put someone on him full time and like proper like someone who is never going to give him a chance to but we have seen that we decided putting markers on him no one can steal the ball from him can't steal me I don't know definitely that's why he is playing in that position and all of those things but it's a final and things are different everyone wants to up their game and everyone does up their game a bit so obviously whoever you put on that and is Lenny an option sorry Lenny started because Lenny has come you can play 4-4-2 for me that's a great match up right there how you know either of them managed to because they are absolutely opposites as far as I have seen in terms of midfielders Lenny and Lenny if you want to mark someone and won't be Krishna also because you want Krishna to be free to make runs he will probably be Williams so he will come here and play if you want to mark someone because I don't think you are playing to move my hands if you have to man mark someone he is your guy because I have seen a lot of time when he doesn't get the ball he comes half way to touch the ball basically he always wants the ball at his feet he is a player he is a confidence player he will touch the ball as much as he wants he will come in that momentum so if you don't let him touch the ball you killed him whatever you did you take him out of the game then you have taken out a massive chunk of Mumbai's attack that is the thing if you give the ball as much as you want but who will you look for the point is if you have sent him he has searched here he will come here he goes all over the pitch if you see his heat map he is on the left sometimes I have seen him come back till here where these 3 defenders are because he is not getting the ball so just mark this guy because if you mark this guy no one else up front has the ability to open up teams like this guy and then they will start thinking what to do you are right but then what are you doing you are putting all your eggs in Mr. Krishna's basket right that he will find his space and be able to probably beat a defender not even Mr. I am saying you don't have to mark Javu so Williams and Krishna can be free if you mark Bumu up the pitch you dedicate one guy from these 8 or Bumu also then because the Mumbai midfield will not be sitting there they will be here this is what I am trying to say if you mark one of these guys on him wherever he goes I will pinch him wherever he goes I will not leave him if he gets the ball he will hit him break his momentum actually that is a better option for ATK Mohan Bagan than to mark Javu sir what do you think see how foreigners always make the difference here also foreigners will make the difference yeah I kept if I kept Mumbai one percent ahead as I said 51-49 that is only because if a team has players like Amit Javu Hugo Bumos, Lafondre and Oak Beche it is very difficult and those who are those who are playing with them I have nothing against them like Bipin and Raolyn Borges or for that matter I think Vignesh Ranavade all these boys they are all very good players but the force is this and Mohan Bagan also Mohan Bagan also in brilliance Mohan Bagan can also match them ATK Mohan Bagan can also match them because ATK Mohan Bagan has David Williams has Roy Krishna has T.D. who are very good players very good players they are brilliant footballers but my only concern is in this match which this is on the basis of what I have seen in the last three matches last three or four matches nothing more than that I may be completely wrong I may prove completely wrong also that the Indian boys the ATK Mohan Bagan have they have many of those performances have suddenly dipped which includes which includes Goalkeeper Arindam Bhattacharya Preetham Kotal all these boys I don't know there could be reason they might come back again on the final in full force so given that balance I have kept I said that Mumbai is 51-49 favorite in this match that's what I think you back that I mean it's I'm torn because on the one hand backing Mumbai city was this being I suppose parochial in that sense but on the other because it's because some of these guys who are a big part of the national team are going to have so much of an impact on the game if Mohan Bagan win or do well I want to I want to see that happen for sure they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have but it's that the central part of the story I think I'm not wrong is suspended I think yeah I think Mandar is suspended not sure so I don't know I'm excited about the final actually it should be an interesting game two different styles feels like at the end of the season having this final so in terms of the strategy of having a post playoff or whatever I'm not sure but having a final between two of the teams that have been the best over the course of a year despite pandemic and all of those other issues that we've had this year is quite an exciting thing to have to look forward to I got to say it's nice to be so split down the middle 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