Kalyani: Mohun Bagan will be desperate to earn their first win of this I-League season when they face debutants TRAU FC of Manipur at the Kalyani Municipality Stadium here on Wednesday.
The Kolkata heavyweights have logged just one point from two games so far while TRAU went down by a solitary goal to defending champions Chennai City FC in the I-League opener, which was also their debut match.
Mohun Bagan went down 2-4 to Churchill Brothers of Goa in their last encounter. The pressure was clearly evident in Mohun Bagan’s Spanish coach Kibu Vicuna’s pre-match comments. “After the last match, the team wants to play to get three points. We had 71 per cent ball possession, 27 shots, 10 on target against Churchill but we conceded so much defensively,” he said. For debutants TRAU, it will be their second straight game on the road and having to play their first two matches against the defending champions and former champions Mohun Bagan means they have certainly had a baptism by fire to the I-League. It might, in fact, turn out to be a positive for them at the end of a long league but for that, they will have to pull up their socks if evidence from their first game is anything to go by. (PTI)
