My players are flexible: Papas
DNMUM248699 | 7/2/2012 | Author : DNA Correspondent | WC :269
India U-22 football team's head coach Arthur Papas believes that his side has a good bench strength that allows him the liberty to experiment and utilise all the players.
The team is currently competing in the AFC Under-22 Championships in Muscat and has a good chance of qualifying for the final phase, provided it wins the do-or-die encounter against Oman on Tuesday.
"When you play five games in 11 days you need to utilise your whole squad. We have depth in the bench at the moment and the players are quite comfortable to change in situations because in the training preparation, we consistently worked on all players understanding the whole system. It's flexible," Papas said.
According to Papas, Oman are a very c
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apable side and his boys will have their task cut out. "We will have to ensure we are able to find a structure which allows us to win the second ball consistently and again, we need to keep focusing on our positional understanding whenever we have the ball," he said.
Coming into the tourney as underdogs, Papas is impressed with the way his players have performed.
"In every game, we have started as the lowest-ranked nation and wear the tag of 'underdogs' to those outside. Internally though, we have developed an amazing team spirit, inner self-belief and have consistently grown in confidence day by day whilst playing a very positive brand of football," he said.
"Overall, I feel it's the players who deserve the credit for what has transpired in this tournament. They are the ones who go out and execute what has been taught," he added.
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