ISL: Mumbai City FC - 5 Takeaways from the 2014 season

Czech midfielder Jan Stohanzl was Mumbai’s best player of the season

#3 Best and worst match of the season

Didika scored his only goal of the tournament in the win against Kolkata

It would be easy to pick their 5-0 win at home over FC Pune City in the ‘Maha Derby’ as their finest moment, but I would go with their 2-1 win over Atletico de Kolkata in their final home fixture as their best performance.

The thrashing of Pune was their second match of the ISL and first at home and they were facing a Pune side that had not really settled in yet. So I’m giving more points to the latter simply because it came on the back of a horrendous six game winless streak and the team, missing a lot of key players, showed a lot of heart to fight it out and get the result.

Mumbai were humbled by Chennai inside the ‘Marina Arena’

There is no doubt about their worst performance however. It has to be their 5-1 thrashing at the hands of Chennaiyin FC in Chennai, not just because of the scoreline, but because of the total capitulation that we witnessed from Mumbai that evening.

They made mistake after mistake, the same mistake even over and over again as Elano and the other Chennai boys ripped them to shreds. The game was over as a contest before half-time with Chennai up 4-0 and really there was a sense of helplessness amongst the Mumbai players.

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