Des Buckingham confident ahead of Mumbai City FC’s clash against Chennaiyin FC

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Published 18.04.2023
Des Buckingham confident ahead of Mumbai City FC’s clash against Chennaiyin FC

Mumbai City FC will tackle Chennaiyin FC in its final Group D sport on Wednesday on the Payyanad Stadium in Manjeri, Kerala in what might be a digital knockout conflict between the 2 ISL golf equipment.

Mumbai misplaced 2-1 to NorthEast United FC in its most up-to-date sport within the Super Cup.

Speaking concerning the sport towards NorthEast United, Mumbai head coach Des Buckingham stated, “I was pleased with how we played. All the internal measures that we have were as high, if not higher in some areas than the marks that we try and hold ourselves to. Unfortunately, the external measure, the end result was 2-1 to NorthEast. We hit the crossbar twice. We had two clear penalties turned down. We had other chances which we could’ve normally and would’ve scored. So, when I monitor and measure our performances across that game, I was. Very happy with how we played in the game.”

The 38-year-old Englishman gave an perception into how his squad is making ready for the digital knockout sport towards Chennaiyin FC.

“Chennaiyin are at full strength. They’re a good team. We’ve played them twice so far this season in the league, and they were competitive games. As always, we will do what we’ve done in all the games – make sure we get ourselves as prepared as we can to do what we want to try and do,” the coach stated.

Mumbai City FC and Chennaiyin FC have clashed twice within the league and as soon as within the Durand Cup already this season with the Islanders profitable all three conferences.

Across the three video games, the Islanders have scored 13 and conceded 6 objectives towards Chennaiyin FC. Speaking on what he expects from the sport, Buckingham stated, “It will certainly be an exciting one. We know, both teams are going into the game, they need to win it if they want to stand a chance of progressing. Tournament football always sets games up for an exciting 90 minutes.”