Pressure is on Bengaluru: Colaco

He has the habit of winning national league titles and Armando Colaco, who is chasing his sixth one with East Bengal this season, believes leaders Bengaluru FC will be under pressure to maintain their dominance at the top.
"Pressure is on them, they are on top. I feel every team has a chance till the last round," Colaco, who has won five I-League and NFL titles for Dempo, told reporters at the East Bengal club tent today.
Third-placed East Bengal trail Bengaluru by seven points, but they have two more games in hand including home and away against Pune FC.

Dismissing suggestion that he has been lucky to have won five titles, Colaco says "I believe in hard work and the rest falls in place. If something good has happened to me, then I feel blessed by God."
East Bengal will miss out on James Moga who is down with an injury, perhaps for the remainder of the season but Colaco sounds unperturbed.
"The beauty of our team has been that all players are rising to the occasion. If we don't get somebody the others on the bench are filling up the void. We have been putting a strong show and not letting in much goals. I'm very happy.

"We have a good team spirit and everybody is happy. There's no looking back from here on. I don't think any team has an advantage or disadvantage. We cannot say who's winning the title or who's getting relegated till the last round is played."
The transfer season is round the corner, but Colaco said everybody including himself is focused on the remaining four I-League games.
East Bengal, who finished third last season, are yet to win the I-League with their best finishes being successive runners-up places in 2010-12.