Niche Cache.
Serbian Superliga resumes this weekend, cross fingers Singh is in the coach's plans.
https://youtu.be/rI1RWp_55W4
Oh well Singh will be going to the WC. Not so sure about Degenek who captained the Socceroos against AWs back in September. He probably had stronger motivation to leave TSC to get playing time to try impress Poppa.
It was going fine for Sarpreet Singh up until Darije Kalezic got fired. He’d scored in consecutive games when that coaching change happened... then suddenly he only got 38 minutes combined across the next six fixtures. From that perspective, the winter break came at a good time for him. TSC have still got the same coach, Nemanja Miljanović, who was promoted up from the youth ranks as interim when Kalezic got the flick and it looks likely he’ll be staying in charge for the rest of the season... but at least the extended training break has given Singh a chance to impress a gaffer who didn’t initially seem to value him very much.
Serbian Superliga resumes this weekend, cross fingers Singh is in the coach's plans.
https://youtu.be/rI1RWp_55W4
Oh well Singh will be going to the WC. Not so sure about Degenek who captained the Socceroos against AWs back in September. He probably had stronger motivation to leave TSC to get playing time to try impress Poppa.
It was going fine for Sarpreet Singh up until Darije Kalezic got fired. He’d scored in consecutive games when that coaching change happened... then suddenly he only got 38 minutes combined across the next six fixtures. From that perspective, the winter break came at a good time for him. TSC have still got the same coach, Nemanja Miljanović, who was promoted up from the youth ranks as interim when Kalezic got the flick and it looks likely he’ll be staying in charge for the rest of the season... but at least the extended training break has given Singh a chance to impress a gaffer who didn’t initially seem to value him very much.
None of their winter friendlies appear to have been televised... but we can report that Sarpreet Singh started – and scored – in the most recent of them against Polish club Wieczysta Kraków. Singh played the first half of that match and found the net after 16 mins.
Polish media described the goal as: “an exemplary counter-attack with three quick passes, ending with Sarpreet Singh passing the goalkeeper and firing into an empty net”. It was 1-1 at the break when TSC changed almost their entire team before going on to lose 4-2.
Polish media described the goal as: “an exemplary counter-attack with three quick passes, ending with Sarpreet Singh passing the goalkeeper and firing into an empty net”. It was 1-1 at the break when TSC changed almost their entire team before going on to lose 4-2.
Not sure if that start was a reflection of Singh’s status or not since he only came off the bench in a 1-1 draw vs NS Mura (Slovenia) in their first friendly. They also lost 2-1 to GKS Katowice (Poland) in between, though that line-up wasn’t made public. All of those fixtures happened within the space of a week so there’s bound to have been heaps of rotation going on.
Either way, Singh’s fared better from the coaching change than Australia’s Miloš Degenek – he was captaining this team through the early weeks of the season but then fell out of favour while Kalezic was still there and despite some good performances right before the break he’s gapped it in the transfer window, signing with APOEL in Cyprus where he debuted over the weekend. Okey doke.
Either way, Singh’s fared better from the coaching change than Australia’s Miloš Degenek – he was captaining this team through the early weeks of the season but then fell out of favour while Kalezic was still there and despite some good performances right before the break he’s gapped it in the transfer window, signing with APOEL in Cyprus where he debuted over the weekend. Okey doke.