FC Pune City need to beat NorthEast United FC at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Guwahati on Wednesday to keep their semi-final hopes alive and head coach David Platt understands the enormity of the job his team is facing in their penultimate match of the league stage.
“We will confront the game to win as we always do. We wouldn't change much. My routine is to go through the same process. We have 90 minutes to win the game of football. It is like a final but we have our fate in our own hands, we are not dependent on other results. The situation is enjoyable in a perverse sort of way,” Platt told reporters ahead of the game on Tuesday.
Strikers Tuncay Sanli and Kalu Uche did well in the first half of the league stage this season but in the last few matches only marquee player Adrian Mutu has been in the thick of things. Platt, however, refused to lay the blame on Sanli and Uche for their current situation in the league.
“It's wrong to say that he is the only one performing. We win and lose together as a team. Uche and Sanli are goal-scorers. We have to create chances. Goals have dried for the entire team it seems. But it's wrong to single them out. They even have not played each and every match,” the Englishman said.
The Stallions, who have taken just three points from their last six outings, will go into the match without Eugeneson Lyngdoh (suspended) and Gouramangi Singh who has a posterior cruciate ligament injury.
