{"id":296482,"date":"2023-03-12T04:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/12\/isl-semifinal-2023-bengaluru-fc-gear-up-for-mumbai-city-backlash-football-news-times-of-india\/"},"modified":"2023-03-12T04:30:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T04:30:34","slug":"isl-semifinal-2023-bengaluru-fc-gear-up-for-mumbai-city-backlash-football-news-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/03\/12\/isl-semifinal-2023-bengaluru-fc-gear-up-for-mumbai-city-backlash-football-news-times-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"ISL Semifinal 2023: Bengaluru FC gear up for Mumbai City backlash | Football News &#8211; Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-98576714,imgsize-49924.cms\" \/><\/p>\n<div>BENGALURU: With his team performing beyond expectations, even setting a record of 10 wins on the trot, <!-- -->Bengaluru FC<!-- --> coach Simon Grayson will have a new headache ahead of the second leg of the <!-- -->Indian Super League<!-- --> (<!-- -->ISL<!-- -->) semifinal against <!-- -->Mumbai City FC<!-- --> at the Sree Kanteerava stadium here on Sunday.<br \/>That would be whether to start India skipper Sunil Chhetri or to use him as a super sub. Proof of that came at the Mumbai City Arena when he slipped past Mumbai\u2019s defence wall and headed in the winner that gave BFC a slender advantage. <br \/>\u201cIf Sunil keeps scoring goals, it\u2019s a good headache to have,\u201d Grayson said. <br \/>With no away-goal rule in place, Mumbai will fancy their chances of ending their lean spell of three consecutive defeats that followed the euphoria of winning the League Shield.<\/div>\n<p><script>!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadFBEvents = function() {\n      (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n        if (f.fbq) return;\n        n = f.fbq = function() {\n          n.callMethod ? n.callMethod(...arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n        };\n        if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n        n.push = n;\n        n.loaded = !0;\n        n.version = '2.0';\n        n.queue = [];\n        t = b.createElement(e);\n        t.async = !0;\n        t.defer = !0;\n        t.src = v;\n        s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n      })(f, b, e, v, n, t, s);\n      fbq('init', '593671331875494');\n      fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    };\n  })(\n    window,\n    document,\n    'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js',\n  );<\/script><script>if(typeof window !== 'undefined') {\n    window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {};\n    const { TimesApps } = window;\n    TimesApps.loadScriptsOnceAdsReady = () => {\n      var scripts = [\n      'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-877820074',\n      'https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=AW-658129294',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/grxpushnotification_js\/minify-1,version-2.cms',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#version=v10.0&xfbml=true',\n      'https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/locateservice_js\/minify-1,version-14.cms'\n    ];\n      scripts.forEach(function(url) {\n        let script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.type=\"text\/javascript\";\n        if(!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('colombia_v2')!== -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && !false && !false && url.indexOf('sdkloader')!== -1) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (!false && (url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk') !== -1 || url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') !== -1 || url.indexOf('locateservice_js') !== -1 )) {\n          script.src = url;\n        } else if (url.indexOf('colombia_v2')== -1 && url.indexOf('sdkloader')== -1 && url.indexOf('tvid.in\/sdk')== -1 && url.indexOf('connect.facebook.net') == -1){\n          script.src = url;\n        }\n        script.async = true;\n        script.defer = true;\n        document.body.appendChild(script);\n      });\n    }\n  }\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/football\/indian-super-league\/isl-semifinal-bengaluru-fc-gear-up-for-mumbai-city-backlash\/articleshow\/98576696.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] BENGALURU: With his team performing beyond expectations, even setting a record of 10 wins on the trot, Bengaluru FC coach Simon Grayson will have a new headache ahead of the second leg of the Indian Super League (ISL) semifinal against Mumbai City FC at the Sree Kanteerava stadium here on Sunday.That would be whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11489,1136,5733,7354,1291,361549,361548,11153,361547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}