Kolkata. Indian football team head coach Igor Stimac wants his aggressive players to learn to get into the habit of playing without a charismatic striker Sunil Chhetri and also will have to score goals. Chhetri is 37 years old and is in the last stop of his career but India still depends on them with the help of two goals, the team started the Asian Cup qualifier campaign on Wednesday by winning Cambodia.

Stimak said that now the time has come when players like Udanta Singh, Manveer Singh, Aashiq Kurunian, Sahal Abdul Samad and Liston Kolaso ​​will have to start scoring. Stimak said after the match, 'Then Sunil scored goals. Others also tried to score but they could not find the way. So I hope Liston, Manveer, Udanta, Aashiq and Sahal score goals.

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He said, 'All of them have to start scoring. We have to start learning. The simple thing is – players need to start learning to play without Sunil. Stimak said that Udanta and Aashiq have two main weapons of the team in the front line. Steamic, 'Regardless of how they play in the club, I would like to see them playing fast here so that they can harm the opponents who are strong because we do not have a big pool of players to choose.'

Indian captain Chhetri said that the players who played aggressive sports of the team could have done better in winning the low ranked Cambodia. The team managed to win with two goals of Chhetri and due to this, he reached above Hong Kong in terms of goal difference in Group D. He said after the match, 'It feels good, I am happy that it did not go against us. There are many things in which we could do better. I do not want to be strict but there are many things in which we could do better.