ISL 2016: Kerala Blasters 3 -1 Chennaiyin FC - 5 talking points

#4 Chennaiyin FC’s promising 3-4-3 system couldn’t hold on

Chennaiyin started with a 3-4-3 formation (Images courtesy of ISL)

Marco Materazzi continues to chop and change his line-up and on the night, he decided to adopt a rather adventurous 3-4-3 formation. It worked wonders in the first half as the visitors took the game by the scruff of the neck. The home crowd went silent for large parts of the first 45 minutes.

Every time Chennai attacked, they had seven men in the opposition half. Kerala Blasters were caught on the back foot, outnumbered in midfield, and struggled to keep up with the opposition’s slick passing.

However, as the game progressed, Materazzi’s men found it tought to keep up with the pace of the match as Kerala’s influence kept growing by the minute. Chennai were eventually outdone, as Kerala did to them what they did to the home side in the first half.