#3 Malouda made to work extremely hard
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Speaking ahead of the match, Florent Malouda admitted that he wasn’t given too much space to play by Kerala in the first leg. He found himself in a similar situation, being chased persistently by Mehtab Hussain and company. As a result, quite often, he found himself using his weaker, right foot to play his passes. The experienced Frenchman though showed he still very much has his skills intact.
On one such occasion, Malouda went on a hazy, Lionel Messi-like run. Running from the half way line, he breezed past five Kerala players, before eventually blasting his close-range shot over the crossbar. Delhi’s marquee man started off playing as a deep lying playmaker.
Towards the fag end of the match, the former France international deployed himself in a much more advanced position and nearly got the winner for Delhi. His headed effort late on, was cleared off the line by Sandesh Jhingan.
