ISL 2017 Match 11: FC Pune City vs Mumbai City FC, 5 Talking Points

Balwant Singh was allowed too much space for his first goal (Image: ISL)

#3 Plenty of smoke, but no fire

The Pune side missed a number of opportunities to score (Image: ISL)

Pune came into this game on the back of an impressive 4-1 win away at ATK. Yet, they could only score once in this game from open play. Of course, a lot of credit has to go to Mumbai City's defence that kept Pune's attackers quiet on the night. Still, Pune probably could have done a bit better.

Despite not having many clear-cut goal-scoring chances, Pune actually managed to get into good positions quite a few times. At least on six or seven occasions, they got the ball out wide behind Mumbai's three-man backline and got good cutbacks into the box. However, no one got on the end of any of these cutbacks and crosses into the box and as a result not making the most of the opportunities.

They got the win in the end, but with some better execution, they could have perhaps come back into the game sooner.

Edited by Shraishth Jain