Defender Salam Ranjan Singh played full 90 minutes on his Hero Indian Super League debut on Tuesday evening. He proved to be the lucky charm as NorthEast United FC registered their first win in seven matches after beating FC Pune City at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati in front of over 18,000 home fans. With the win fuelled by Romaric’s goal nine minutes from time, the Highlanders have put their semis hopes back on track as they have moved one place up to sixth in the standings with 14 points from 11 games. The 20-year-old centre-back spoke to indiansuperleague.com after the match and discussed the win. Here are the excerpts from the interview.It was your first game today and you won, so how happy are you?The whole team is very happy and this was a very crucial game for us, and I am glad we won.What do you have to say about the free-kick taken by Romaric?I think it was a great free-kick as it was very well taken.Subrata Paul made some good saves and he kept you in the game. What do you have to say about it?Subrata is a very good goalkeeper and he did very well today.Some decisions didn’t go your way today…This is something which is not in our hands, so the referee’s decision is final.What do you have to say about your own performance?I am very happy with my performance and we also won, so it is fantastic.
