Lobera: Good news Coro is back for Goa

Without Ferran Corominas, the Gaurs lost, but the striker will be back against Delhi Dynamos...

FC Goa’s first defeat of the 2018-19 Indian Super League (ISL) season came in a game which didn’t feature their talisman Ferran Corominas, against Jamshedpur FC.The Spaniard leads both the goals and assists charts this season with six goals and four assists to his name. Head coach Sergio Lobera was quick to dismiss this “dependence” on a single player and mentioned that the team should be able to cope with the absence of Corominas.

“As a coach if I were to say that we lost the game because we didn’t have a player available would be very irresponsible on my part. It is evident that Corominas is a very important player for us and it’s good news that he will be back for us tomorrow."But if you rely so much on one individual then it’s unlikely that you will win a lot of things. We need to overcome adversities with or without the players.”

Goa’s next challenge comes in the form of ninth-placed Delhi Dynamos but Lobera is wary of his opponents. The Spaniard believes that the team will have to perform at the top level if they are to see off Delhi on Friday.

“Delhi have showed against Jamshedpur that they’ve turned a corner. They drew a team that we clearly lost against. It’s also evident that they changed their line-up. They’ve recovered the players who were injured in some way or the other."I think tomorrow we will see a different form of Delhi that we haven’t seen until now. They are a good team with a good coach. I don’t see us getting all three points if we are not at our 100per centt tomorrow.”