After India were dismantled 6-1 by Uruguay in Kolkata, taking the total conceded goals to 11 in three matches, their head coach took responsibility for the result. Kolkata: Khalid Jamil didn’t look for shelter in the weather, the interruption or the familiar refuge of a concentration lapse. “I fully blame myself. We should not give any excuse. I am not blaming anyone, but I made many mistakes.
We have to rectify those mistakes,” Jamil said.
That adjustment proved decisive as Uruguay gradually turned India’s pressure into an invitation to attack the space behind it, while their technical superiority became increasingly difficult for India to contain. Forlan’s Uruguay are themselves still a work in progress. The former Uruguay striker sees the job less as an immediate rebuilding exercise than an attempt to give a talented generation the tools to improve. “It is a new time, it is different. We have really good players. I am happy to be with them as a manager and give them all the tools and everything they need to become better and better.”
Once they went 2-1 up, there was no looking back for Uruguay. After losing 3-1 to Japan in his first match, they beat South Korea 4-1 before producing their most emphatic result under Forlan. Because india have some transition, “We needed to be careful. Because it could be really difficult for us if they score another goal, “We have to be careful, trying to take the ball from them and not make any mistakes,.
They got the ball and they could damage us,” said Forlan.
It was a deflating end to a night that began with India looking capable of making Uruguay work for their victory. Anirudh Thapa’s 22nd-minute equaliser, cancelling out Darwin Núñez’s early penalty, briefly suggested India might have found a way into the contest. Jamil’s response was not to question the process but get more exposure. “Yes, it is very bad. I want to play more matches at this level. But I don’t want to blame anyone. I can’t blame anyone. The temptation after such a defeat is to find a single moment that changed the momentum. India’s defensive implosion was another.
Instead, after the rain and lightning forced the game to stop for 34 minutes, the match became an exercise in damage limitation that India never quite managed. Inside three days, India had conceded 10 goals to two of South America’s most accomplished sides. The weather interruption, when the game was locked at 1-1, offered one.
It is what I said–it is my mistake. “Yes, it was a good feeling, scoring that goal,” said Jamil. “But we needed to fight to keep that goal.”
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There are many things, but we have to solve the problems immediately,” he said.
