Indian football team head coach Igor Stimac was in a defiant mood as he strongly defended his work with the national team during his two-year period as coach suggesting he was satisfied with the progress of his project given the extraordinary circumstances it has faced in the last two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
India finished their World Cup qualifying campaign in third position to ensure a place in the third round of the AFC Asian Cup qualifiers but they only managed a single win in the entire campaign. While the Blue Tigers only conceded seven goals, a big improvement from the 18 they had shipped in the previous campaign, they only managed to score seven goals, as compared to six last time around.
The lack of creativity and more predominantly the lack of goalscorers in the Indian ranks was exposed again as captain Sunil Chhetri did the bulk of the scoring. He has netted 50% of the goals India scored under the Croatian.
The 53-year-old Stimac admitted that his…