Mumbai: No Des Buckinghamno foreign players and no points from their four matches played so far. It’s a far from ideal situation Mumbai City find themselves in ahead of Tuesday’s AFC Champions League group D clash with Iranian club Nassaji Mazandaran in Tehran, with both sides having nothing but pride to play for. International breaks have a knack for delivering setbacks to clubs, and while those usually concern injuries to players, the Islanders were dealt a jolt of a different kind when Buckingham, the man who steered them to the ISL League Winners Shield last season, left to take charge of his hometown club Oxford United.Incidentally, the Englishman’s final match in charge of Mumbai was their last Champions League game on November 6 when they were beaten 2-0 by Saudi giants Al Hilal at DY Patil Stadium after being reduced to 10 men. As the club’s search for Buckingham’s successor continues, assistant coaches Anthony Fernandes and Hiroshi Miyazawa have been entrusted with first team responsiblities for now. When Mumbai hosted Nassaji Mazandaran at Balewadi Stadium in September, the Islanders had several promising moments but nothing to show for their efforts, as goals from Ehsan Hosseini and Mohammadreza Azadi earned the Iranians a 2-0 win. Mumbai, who famously became the firstIndian club to register wins in Asia’s premier club competition last season, have found the going much harder this time. With four straight defeats, they can no longer qualify for the round of 16 stage, though third-placed Nassaji are also out of contention. The Islanders are yet to even score a goal in this continental campaign, and ending that dubious run on Tuesday will prove to be a complicated task since they won’t be able to count on any of their foreign players who haven’t travelled to Iran due to travel advisories issued by their respective governments. “Yes, it’s a new situation for us. But we are as strong as we can be in this match,” Fernandes said at the pre-match press conference on Monday. Defender Mehtab Singh is also unavailable owing to the red card he picked up against Al Hilal.
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