Mumbai City FC on Course to Becoming ‘Invincibles’

Mumbai City FC are on a historic run that the Indian Super League (ISL) has by no means witnessed earlier than, enjoying with medical aptitude and flamboyance. With 5 video games to go within the league stage, Mumbai City FC are nonetheless unbeaten, and presently stretching the file for many wins in a row, having wrapped up their tenth on the trot with a 4-Zero victory in opposition to NorthEast United FC final night time. Fans and consultants have already began to see them now on observe to match the well-known ‘Invincibles’ season that Arsenal had managed through the 2003-04 season of the English Premier League. Should they handle to do this, they are going to be ISL’s first membership to stay unbeaten throughout the season.

With 45 targets in 15 video games this season, Mumbai City FC are actually solely a objective behind the all-time league stage file of 46 targets. Their common of three targets per recreation is way forward of the Arsenal staff which had averaged 1.92 over the course of the season.

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“I would like them to be Invincibles as a result of they’re enjoying stunning and swift soccer this season, and I’ve not seen some other membership in India play like that. I hope they continue to be unbeaten until the top. Fingers crossed,” said a fan of the Islanders.

A lot of Mumbai City FC’s dominance has been built around their Indian players, particularly the pacy duo of Lallianzuala Chhangte and Bipin Singh, who have scored eight and six goals respectively. In all, Mumbai City FC have found 21 goals from their Indian players alone, a tally which is more than five other teams have managed with their entire squads.

Speaking after the NorthEast United FC game, Mumbai City FC Head Coach Des Buckingham suggested that this drive has come from setting high standards.

“I said to them that last week against Kerala, our first four shots were goals. So the scoreline was 4-0. Against ATK Mohun Bagan last week, the first six shots we had on goal in the opening 20 minutes resulted in one goal,” he mentioned. “My message was very clear at halftime in each video games and identical for the pre-match tonight – it’s extra necessary that we proceed making an attempt to do what we do from minute one by to 95 and we proceed making an attempt to do what we would like to do whatever the scoreline.”

To sustain this kind of dominance over a season, it is vital to have a steely defence. New signing Mehtab Singh has made the centre-back position his own, while goalkeeper Phurba Lachenpa has risen rapidly after being their second-choice goalkeeper and now has seven clean sheets to his name, the most by any goalkeeper so far.

But as the chatter and expectations about an Invincibles season grow, the club’s top goalscorer Jorge Diaz indicated that he and the team are focused on keeping up what the head coach wants of them.

“As of now, we are unbeaten. Right now, the focus is on [the next game], and after that, the focus will shift to the next match,” he mentioned.

From again to entrance, Mumbai City FC have proven to this point that they are going to give nothing away to their opponents. Should they handle to keep unbeaten of their subsequent recreation in opposition to Jamshedpur FC on January 27, they are going to have gone unbeaten in 16 video games, which will likely be one other all-time league file above ATKMB and FC Goa, who’ve managed 15 every within the final two seasons. Once that barrier is breached, there isn’t any telling what heights this staff may scale. If they stick with it in opposition to Hyderabad FC within the first week of February, the Invincibles feat is not going to appear distant.

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