Shillong: Shilong Lajong Football Club will host Kingfisher East Bengal in a crucial 4th Round Match of the Airtel I-League at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Wednesday (October 9). This will be East Bengal\u2019s first match in the Airtel I-League as the Red and Gold were busy with their commitments in the AFC Challenge Cup semi-finals against Kuwait SC.<\/p>\n
Lajong Coach Thangboi Singto stays aware of the challenge but stays a bit worried about midfielder Taisuke Matsugae\u2019s injury. Taisuke suffered an injury in Lajong\u2019s last match against Sporting Clube de Goa and a final call on him would be taken on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, he stressed: \u201cWe will play to win and it will be a good game of Football.\u201d Singto insisted his Team has had a good start to the season and they want to continue the momentum at any cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our last match we created many chances but failed to convert. So I feel it\u2019s just a matter of converting those chances and opportunities. East Bengal has got a good squad and we need to be cautious,\u201d Singto added.\n<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the match will mark the debut for East Bengal\u2019s Brazilian Coach Marcos Falopa in the Airtel I-League. \u201cI\u2019ve heard about the crowd and expect it to be a good atmosphere. I expect a good match tomorrow,\u201d Falopa stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Players are very tired following their AFC campaign but we have some brought some fresh Players with us as we need to balance it,\u201d he added. \u201cLajong are always a very dangerous side at Home and we not taking them lightly at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever you play Football, we can have all three results. But we need to begin our campaign on a high and would try to make a winning start in the Airtel I-League,\u201d he maintained.<\/p>\n
The kick-off at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is at 3:30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shillong: Shilong Lajong Football Club will host Kingfisher East Bengal in a crucial 4th Round Match of the Airtel I-League at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Wednesday (October 9). This will be East Bengal\u2019s first match in the Airtel I-League as the Red and Gold were busy with their commitments in the AFC Challenge Cup semi-finals against Kuwait SC.<\/p>\n
Lajong Coach Thangboi Singto stays aware of the challenge but stays a bit worried about midfielder Taisuke Matsugae\u2019s injury. Taisuke suffered an injury in Lajong\u2019s last match against Sporting Clube de Goa and a final call on him would be taken on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, he stressed: \u201cWe will play to win and it will be a good game of Football.\u201d Singto insisted his Team has had a good start to the season and they want to continue the momentum at any cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our last match we created many chances but failed to convert. So I feel it\u2019s just a matter of converting those chances and opportunities. East Bengal has got a good squad and we need to be cautious,\u201d Singto added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n