| Fadhil Yunus |
DPMM FC head coach Steve Kean has highlighted the urgency for spectating players to take better positioning amid a worrisome defensive line ahead of his side’s Great Eastern-Hyundai S League match against Geylang International FC at the Bedok Stadium tonight.
The head coach touched on the team’s shape behind the ball whereby the players’ without the ball must not be out of position once an attacking team-mate surrenders possession.
Kean highlighted that the goals which have been conceded originated from a counter-attack with the players’ positioning giving opposition an edge in providing lethal attacks on the final third.
The head coach indicated that the players are reacting to a situation when their opponents’ take control of the play rather than being proactive where they should be in a better position.
“When we’re attacking, the guys that are behind the ball be much more attentive and much more almost thinking that his team-mate is going to lose the ball, where am I and where’s the opponent and get in a better shape,” said Kean in an interview with the Bulletin after a training session at the Jerudong Mini Stadium on Tuesday.
“That’s what we’ve been working on all week and I’m sure that will be better next game.”
Asked about the team’s confidence after another home defeat, Kean replied, “It’s my job to get back on the training ground and to put on the session and remind them obviously the things that we’re poor during the game.
“There were poor goals scored against us so we’ve worked on that a lot but then also on the flipside to remember that the first few games of the season even though we didn’t win we played well against the two teams that sat on the top of the league.
DPMM FC head coach Kean. – FILE PHOTO
“Then, we win a game and then we went backwards again so we’ve got to do an analysis of why we conceded the goals, put on the session and then put that right so that don’t happen again.”
The head coach also indicated that there is no time to reflect on the losses for a long period of time and move on for the next competitive fixture.
“You can dwell on for a day or two the negatives of the previous game of the loss and put that right. Then you’ve got to move forward and you’ve got to focus on the next game because you don’t have too much time to feel sorry for yourself,” he further continued.
“You’ve got to pick yourself up, put right what we didn’t do well the last game and put together a positive game plan to go get points so that’s what we’ve done and you can feel the atmosphere changing again.
“Good results breathe confidence and bad results breathe a bit of negativity earlier on in the week but that’s why you come in the next day, you get your training kit on, you get out onto the field, you got through it and then the atmosphere slowly turns again.”
He added the need to carry a positive mind in every match and must eradicate fear as well as striving to build a good run of games together.
The head coach has also admitted that they have to improve their passing while maintaining that the defensive positioning should be better.
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