Kerala Blasters head coach Mikael Stahre could not hide his disappointment after his side failed to score for the first time this ISL season in a 0-1 defeat to FC Goa in Kochi on Thursday.

"I'm shocked that we did not score this evening," Stahre said in his post-match press conference. "We can't lose these kind of games. Impossible," said the Swede.

In all nine previous ISL matches under Stahre, the Blasters had scored at least one goal. Four days ago, the Blasters posted their best win of the ISL campaign, a 3-0 over Chennaiyin at the same venue, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The Blasters' scoring run stretches to the last two matches of the previous season when Ivan Vukomanovic managed them.

Stahre couldn't accept the way they conceded the solitary goal from Boris Singh. "That goal was out of the blue. That is not a chance in my perspective," he said.

The Swede had repeatedly protected his first-choice goalkeeper Sachin Suresh despite a series of costly errors in earlier matches. But tonight, he was not too kind, even without naming his young Kerala keeper. "99 times out of a hundred, that ball would be saved," Stahre said. The Blasters next play Bengaluru FC in Bengaluru on December 7.

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