"I think in the full season, we didn't have much luck. But I'm still proud of the team for many reasons. The first is, the team showed character and we were at the same level in every single game. It did not matter who our opponent was. I think now for the 20,000th time I say that it was only in the Hyderabad game, especially in the second half, that we were not fantastic. We conceded goals that we could have avoided.
"We targeted to be in the top four and until the last game against Goa (2-2 draw). If we had won, mathematically we would have had the possibility to be in the top four. But also against NorthEast United (on account of late goals), we lost crucial points," he rued.