Selangor coach K. Devan has vowed the Malaysia Super League champions will add to their arsenal before their return to continental competition in the 2010 AFC Cup.
“We will strengthen next year for the AFC Cup, and we will see a better Selangor side,” Devan told the S.League.com following his side’s 3-0 defeat to Singapore in Sunday’s Sultan of Selangor Cup.
Selangor, who reached the quarter-finals of the AFC Cup in 2006 before bowing out to Lebanon’s Al Nejmeh, took on a Singapore side containing most of the players that will be in the squad for the Lions’ forthcoming 2011 AFC Asian qualification double header against Thailand and went down to first-half goals from Indra Sahdan Daud (28), Aleksandar Duric (35) and John Wilkinson (45).
“I told my boys to be more aggressive to win the ball in defence. They were not doing that in the first-half, whereas the Singapore team kept the ball well and finished well.
“In the second half, we put more pressure up front, and then I think we managed to show a better performance where both sides were balanced. But this is a Singapore team that has been together for four to five years, and this is my first year with Selangor."
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