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Post by myngoc128 20/02/20, 02:00 pm

FC Goa are the champions of India. Well, not of the ISL yet -- because we still have to go through the theatre of the playoffs -- but as winners of the league stage of the newly-anointed first division of Indian football, that is what they are. Champions w88 casino .

Their win over Jamshedpur FC on Wednesday night means they end the ISL's 18-game regular season with 39 points, an unassailable tally that comes with it a shiny new shield, and most importantly, a spot in the group stages of the AFC Asian Champions League. They will represent the nation on the continent's grandest stage. Champions.

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Goa had come into their last game of the season in peak 'FC Goa' form, their last four scores reading -- 5-2. 4-1. 4-2. 3-2. Four games, 16 goals scored, 7 conceded. Scoring, conceding, entertaining, this merry caravan of disorganized chaos and relentless energy had rolled into town needing just a draw to seal the league. But as Hugo Boumous dropped a shoulder to drive past a hapless Jamshedpur defence and score a stunning goal to make it 5-0, nobody was surprised w88club mobile .

The stakes may have called for pragmatic game management -- taking-the-ball-to-the-corner, playing-keep-ball-in-your-own-half -- but that is not how Goa do things. They have scored 46 goals this season, a stunning average of two and a half goals per game. No one in the short history of this league has ever scored more. The next closest this season are ATK. And they have just 31. It's ridiculous.

This Goa team, though, have been ridiculous for quite a bit now. Over three years, Sergio Lobera helped shaped Goa into the physical manifestation of what he once told ESPN his footballing philosophy was - "The most important thing, at the end, is the goal difference... you score more, you win."

Even without Lobera. Sacked with just three games to go, and with his team at the top of the table, Lobera had left the club just before the vision he had put into place found tangible success. That Goa navigated the remaining games -- tricky fixtures that had 'choke' written all over them -- with the minimum of fuss is a testament to a the excellence of Lobera's coaching, the strength of character within the squad, and the quality of the two Goans who took over Lobera's job -- youth team coach Clifford Miranda and technical director Derrick Pereira. Noises coming from the club at the time seemed to indicate that the senior management had a season-long tiff with Lobera and that a number of reasons, footballing and financial, long-term and short-term, had contributed to the sacking. The fact that they have gone on to claim top spot bears out the club's decision, but could you imagine the fall-out if they had not? On field or off it, Goa don't ever seem to do half measures club w88 .

Back on the field, though, this is still a Lobera team. Whenever Mohammad Nawaz makes one of his stunning quick-reflex saves, or Mourtada Fall decides to attempt a Cruyff Turn in his own six-yard box, or Ahmed Jahouh goes on a meandering stroll through the middle of the pitch, or Boumous dances through a defence at full tilt, you can see the Lobera stamp. The trust in youth, the encouragement of risk-taking, the insistence on being true to oneself, the emphasis on entertainment.

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