NorthEast United FC suffered their second defeat of the 2016 Hero Indian Super League as defending champions Chennaiyin FC moved up to third in the standings following a 1-0 win over the Highlanders. It was the first time in ISL history that the Guwahati-based club was beaten by the Super Machans. Defender Nirmal Chettri, who returned for Thursday’s game after serving a red-card suspension, spoke to indiansuperleague.com and reviewed his side’s defeat in front of almost 33,000 home fans at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati. Here are the excerpts from the interview.Tough luck, things didn’t go your way today. What are your views on the match?This is football. At times the better team doesn’t win, so I think we were unfortunate. We did well but the result didn’t go our way today. It happens, we’ll chin up.Where do you think you lost the game after making a good start?At times you start well but lose concentration. During the throw-in, we lost our concentration. It happens in football and the next time we will try to focus on set-pieces.What are the lessons from the game?Sometimes from a loss you learn a lot. I’m sure the guys will bounce back and take all the positives from this game.Your next match is on October 28, so are you looking forward to this break?Definitely, in three weeks we have played six games. Now we will recover and train for the next game.How serious is the injury to Nico Velez?The physio is looking after him, I’m sure he’ll be fully fit in a few days.
