ISL 2: ‘We don’t deserve to wear Mumbai City FC jersey’

Nicolas Anelka, player cum coach, calls 0-7 loss to FC Goa his worst in career

Margao

: His side thrashed 0-7 by FC Goa in an Indian Super League (ISL) match here, a dejected Mumbai City FC coach Nicolas Anelka said that his players did not deserve to wear the team jersey.

Anelka, a former Chelsea and France national team star, described Mumbai's 0-7 defeat at the hands FC Goa as the worst in his life. The 7-0 win by FC Goa was the biggest in ISL.

-"It's the worst defeat in my life and our players don't deserve to wear the Mumbai FC jersey after today's humiliating defeat,-" Anelka said at the post-match press conference.

-"Everything went wrong and I tried to change the tactic in the second half after being down by 0-2 but the boys failed to cope up and gave a lot of space to the rival players to attack from the flanks.

-"Now, we have to sit and see what went wrong and rectify the mistakes and win the remaining four matches if we are to reach the semi-finals. We had chance to go to the top but our boys failed to cash in on the opportunity and made things difficult for us to reach the semi-finals,-" said the player-cum-coach of Mumbai.

FC Goa coach Zico was very happy with his boys for today's impressive win.

-"The boys played to our plans and it was the result of collective effort. The win has put us on the right track to qualify for the semi-finals. Now we have to keep the winning momentum and try to qualify as early as possible and not to depend on other teams result,-" stated Zico.

Zico said he was happy the way young Thongkoisep Haokip, who scored a hat-trick, performed on Tuesday.