India gets its FIFA World Cup 2022 and AFC Asian Cup 2023 qualification underway when it hosts Oman at the Indira Gandhi stadium in Guwahati on Thursday.
It will be Igor Stimac’s first competitive game since taking charge of the Blue Tigers. Since he came in, the Croatian has gone about making wholesale changes to the team — from personnel to playing style.
His predecessor Stephen Constantine’s direct football has been replaced by a possession-based, controlled game with an emphasis on building from the back. Those changes have had several players talking positively about what the Croatian has been trying to implement, and captain Sunil Chhetri stressed on it in his pre-match press conference.
Great preparation
“It has been a great (preWorld Cup) training camp minus the Amarjit (Singh Kiyam) debacle. The players have a lot of time to gel, to understand the new techniques and the boys are optimistic about the game,” he said.
This story is from the September 05, 2019 edition of The Hindu.
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