Alejandro Menendez’s East Bengal played their first ever match in club’s home ground on Saturday and pulled off a comfortable win against Army Red in their Durand Cup opener.
The Spanish coach, who took charge of the team in September 2018, hardly stepped foot on the East Bengal ground as he never really liked the turf and deemed it unfit for training.
Even on Saturday, after the match, the former Real Madrid Castilla refused to praise the pitch as he termed it as a hard. But the team displayed an impressive performance in their season opener against a fit army side.