Keegan Pereira: Not pleased with one point but we’ll take it

Mumbai City FC were held to a scoreless draw by FC Pune City in the 2015 Hero Indian Super League on Friday evening.The second Maharashtra derby of the season saw few chances created by both teams. This match at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai was also young and upcoming Indian full-back Keegan Pereira’s second start of the season. Pereira, who completed the full 90 minutes for his side spoke to indiansuperleague.com shortly after his side’s draw. Here are the excerpts from the interview.

What are your thoughts on today’s match?

It was a good game, we did everything we could to score, they had a good defence but we dominated the game I think throughout the match. So I’m not pleased with one point but yeah we’ll take it.

What do you have to say about the lack of chances today?

We had a couple of good chances, I think it’s not the lack of chances it’s just that we didn’t take our shots. So we did everything right we created our good chances, we built up good, we held them well but we didn’t finish it.

"It still looks close, the table is close so you can’t say anything."

Keegan Pereira

Who do you think was the better team today?

Definitely us, no doubt about it.

How does the road to the semi-finals look for Mumbai?

It still looks close, the table is close so you can’t say anything, we’re trying our level best to reach there.

How does it feel to be playing with the likes of Pavel Cmovs and Ashutosh Mehta in defence?

It feels good, you have Darren [O’Dea], you have Pavel. They keep guiding us. They have got lots of experience abroad and are sharing it with us so yes, it’s pretty good.