Last year’s semi-finalists Chennaiyin FC have had a mixed Hero Indian Super League Season 2. They started with two consecutive losses before evening it out with back-to-back wins and then came another loss. However, in their last game they beat tabletoppers FC Pune City to make it three wins and three losses in six games, and on Saturday they play Kerala Blasters FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi. Assistant coach Vivek Nagul, speaking to the media ahead of the game, said the Super Machans had no plans to curb their attacking instinct and that the match against the Blasters will see no different approach from them.“Well, tactically we always play for a win, be it home or away. Sometimes playing on the attack leads to conceding goals, and sometimes the decision did not go our way. We've been strong in our attacking moves and we'll continue doing that,” Nagul told reporters on Friday.When asked if his team had the upper hand against a team languishing at the bottom with four defeats in six matches, Nagul said: “…Kerala is good team with good players and we are ready for the match tomorrow. They've got good support and spectators, we've prepared ourselves like we do with any away game and we're expecting a fresh match.”Sitting alongside Nagul was Italian midfielder Manuele Blasi. He shared his ISL experience so far with the press. “I'm really impressed with the standard of the ISL, there are both good foreign players and Indian players,” he said.Kochi has seen the biggest turn-outs so far in the league and Blasi was excited at the prospect of playing in front of thousands of spectators. “As a footballer we look to play in front of huge crowds, to be honest the other matches had good crowds too, but people have been telling me a lot about Kerala and the Kochi crowd and I'm looking forward to playing in front of them. Football is all about the fans and the players have fun [playing in front of them],” he said.
