I-League: Five things new East Bengal coach Marcos Falopa must do

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Don’t make too many tactical changes

James Moga will add more firepower to the East Bengal attack

James Moga will add more firepower to the East Bengal attack

To be fair to Falopa, he is highly experienced and thus will realise that this East Bengal team doesn’t need too many tactical tweaks. At his first press conference, the Brazilian stated that he will decide the playing style depending on the players he has and added that he would consult the players about the system that was used under Morgan.

Falopa likes both the 3-5-2 and 4-4-2 but since there haven’t been too many changes in personnel from last season, the 64-year-old should try and opt the same 4-1-2-1-2 and 4-1-3-2 that Morgan used.

In truth, the East Bengal squad looks even better than last year because of the addition of the foreigners Ryuji Sueoka and James Moga. Unlike last year, Chidi will now be able to share the goal-scoring responsibility with the other two foreign attackers. With each I-League club being allowed to field four foreigners in the starting eleven now, Falopa will be able to use that attacking trio together and thus Morgan’s system would be perfect. He can then gradually also add his own inputs to minimise some of the mistakes that were made last season and hence a detailed video analysis of the previous campaign is mandatory.

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