Antonio Lopez Habas - Victor Mongil is an intelligent player

The ATK boss praised his side’s resolve to hold on to the lead against Mumbai City FC and win the match.

ATK secured a crucial away win against Mumbai City FC in the Indian Super League on Saturday night, with goals from Pronay Halder and Michael Soosairaj. In the post-match press conference, Antonio Lopez Habas was quick to praise his team’s solid performance, especially in the second half. He spoke in that context and said, “I think we had a fantastic first half. We dominated the match, we had the opportunity to score on two more chances.”

"I am very happy with the performance, the attitude and the discipline of the players. Mumbai City had a chance to score another goal in the second half, but we also had chances to score more goals on the counter-attack,” the Spaniard further went on adding.

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Upon being asked about the defence being a possible area for improvement, Antonio Lopez Habas responded, “We did fantastically in the situation. Our defensive line’s behaviour and performance was fantastic today because we had to remember that we had to win the match with 0-2 and the difference between the two teams was very important in the first-half.”

Speaking on the change of tactics from the first 45-minutes and into the second half, Antonio Lopez Habas remarked, “We had the capacity to change the system during the match and before the match. All we had to do was adapt from one system to another system and we found the best way to play against Mumbai.”

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“We had a clear idea about the counter-attack, this was the idea,” the tactician continued .

The ATK boss also praised Sumit Rathi who has been a consistent performer for ATK this season in defence. He said, “He (Sumit Rathi) is improving everyday in the technical and tactically he is very good.”

Upon being asked to share his opinion on new signing Victor Mongil, who made his debut in the match, Antonio Lopez Habas opined before signing off, “I am very happy because he’s come in only one week and played with this performance. This is an intelligent player.”