FC Goa’s lean form continued as they succumbed to a narrow 1-0 defeat at the hands of Chennaiyin FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Goa on Thursday. The Gaurs have now been winless in their last four encounters with a chance of reaching the Hero Indian Super League (ISL) 2017-18 playoffs almost slipping away. The hosts fought until the end but failed to find the back of the net and speaking to indiansuperleague.com after the final whistle was their defender Bruno Pinheiro. The Portuguese spoke about the game and the road ahead, and here are the excerpts.

Tough luck, your thoughts on the game?

Tough luck are the right words for this game. It was a very well played game by both teams, but I think we deserved to get the three points. Like the shot that they got rebounded on me and Narayan Das and then, we had two or three shots on the crossbar, one in the line of the Chennaiyin defender and the other one that crossed through the line of the goal. For me, today was lack of luck.

What was the half-time talk about?

At half time we knew it was important to win this game. We had to take the three points and we knew how important it was for us. So, half-time were a few motivational words. The team got inside with a lot of energy and motivation but again the luck was not with us.

Do you think you could have done something differently today?

If you analyse this game and the chances that they had, I don’t recall any critical chances like ours where we hit the crossbar, and the guy took it (blocked) in the line of goal. This half chance that they had, we were unfortunate to concede that goal. So, it was little bit of luck today again. This is the only thing that remains on my head. We didn’t have any luck and this is the story of the game.

What do you make of Goa’s playoff chances hereafter?

While it is still mathematically possible to qualify for the playoffs, we believe we can and we will not throw in the towel and we will not put our arms down. We need to fight as this crowd deserves this. We still have four remaining games and everything is still possible as we can already see during this league. We just have to keep fighting and keep believing and hopefully the luck will change.