Antonio Habas: I am happy to take one point tonight

The Spaniard was content with the result and looked forward to the next game.

It was a return to his former citadel, as ATK head coach Antonio Habas went back to Pune to face a makeshift home side in Odisha FC. However, it wasn't the return he would've hoped for, as his team played out a stalemate against the newcomers.

It was not for the want of trying though, as both teams peppered each other's goal with shots, but neither could deal the killer blow. The draw provisionally maintains the former champions at the summit of the ISL standings.

ATK were second in almost every stat to Odisha and thereby could consider themselves happy to come away with a point against a spirited opposition.

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At least their head coach Antonio Habas expressed his satisfaction at having taken a point from the game commenting, "I am happy to take one point tonight. We were not very good and sometimes when you don't play good, you might take a point. But, the most important thing is we didn't concede a goal. I think it is a fair result."

 The 62-year-old Spaniard isn't interested in looking too far ahead, considering his side's chances of maintaining and finishing atop the ISL standings. By rule, that would guarantee them qualification to the AFC Champions League playoffs. The coach insisted on taking an incremental approach to playing the game saying, "We want to take it match-by-match and then think about the playoffs."

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The coach praised the efforts of his defenders who were under constant threat from the Odisha attack and also expressed his delight at the game-management of his midfielders.

ATK remain top of the table with 10 points from their first five league games and next welcome Mumbai City FC on the 30th. Odisha, having endured two consecutive 0-0 draws, travel down south to face bottom-placed Chennaiyin FC in a bid to get back to winning ways.