Back in December, after Bengaluru FC’s 0-4 shellacking at the hands of Mumbai City FC, the then head coach Simon Grayson had said that he saw no leaders on the pitch.
Four months on, the man who took over from Grayson following that harrowing night, Gerard Zaragoza, sang the same tune, after an identical thrashing by Mohun Bagan Super Giant on Thursday.
It was a bold assessment of a side with two Indian National team stalwarts in Sunil Chhetri and Gurpreet Singh Sandhu. But as the twin defeats — two of their heaviest at home — showed, there was more than a kernel of truth in it.
