Carles Cuadrat: We do not want to over depend on one player for goals

The Spaniard spoke ahead of his side's clash against Mumbai City FC on Tuesday.

Bengaluru FC’s coach Carles Cuadrat would have been a busy man over the New Year’s break as he would be attempting to arrest a run of two losses for his side prior to high-profile clash against Sergio Lobera’s Mumbai City FC who are currently in second in the table. Cuadrat’s side fell to a narrow 1-0 defeat to Owen Coyle’s Jamshedpur FC on 28th December. The coach did reveal that the team had used the break to work on some of the areas that needed improvement. 

Using the break to improve in certain areas

“We had some more time this week and we have been working with the team. We’ll try to fight for the three points. If we saw the two games that we lost, we could have got something. We saw chances being created by different players like Sunil (Chhetri), Cleiton (Silva) and Suresh (Wangjam). Rahul Bheke also had a chance from a set piece. We do have options across the squad to create chances and score. We do not want to over depend on one player for goals,” said Cuadrat. 

Continue with creation of chances

The Spaniard continued to highlight the need for his team to put the opposition defence under pressure regularly across the game. 

“When we create chances, we are closer to the goal. We force the opposition to open and that gives us more chances. In the last 15 minutes of the Jamshedpur game, we saw that there were plenty of open spaces which we tried to score from. There is room for improvement in these kinds of games and we want to improve defensively as well. When we concede, the opposition becomes compact and makes it difficult for us to score,” Carles Cuadrat pointed out.  

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The coach also emphasized on how crucial the first goal can be in such tight games indicating that teams are in with a better shout to win the game if they score first. 

Sergio Lobera and his style

The former Barcelona man lauded his opposite number Sergio Lobera, who signed off from his previous stint as FC Goa head coach with the ISL trophy and is now implementing the same style of free-flowing football that was associated with the Gaurs. 

“We have played each other a number of times. He has been using the same system at Mumbai and developing some new players. They have a good dynamic now. We have a plan and we hope to have a good game against them,” signed off the former El-Salvador coach.