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#3 Samuel's absence felt for Lajong
Lajong is the only professional club in this season's I-League to register an all Indian squad.
The average age of the team is just 20 and leading this team is a young 20-year-old midfielder named Samuel Lalmuanpuia who was awarded the best young player in the I-League last season.
Samuel is a threat from set pieces, and there are very few players in India who can match his consistency and accuracy from set pieces.
Today Lajong won a couple of free-kicks from dangerous situations but failed to test the Gokulam keeper. Had Samuel been there the story could have been different.
A lot of the Lajong youngsters also looked out of sorts after being three goals down, and it was then that someone of Samuels experience could have guided them.
After Lajong scored one back in the 78th min, they could have pressed harder for another one, and it was in situations like these that Samuel was missed a lot.
