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[caption id="attachment_19670" align="alignnone" width="580"] East Bengal players training ahead of Peerless SC match tomorrow. Xtra Time[/caption] Kolkata: East Bengal coach Trevor James Morgan hinted of three probable changes in the squad for tomorrow’s CFL encounter against Peerless SC in Kalyani. However, there is no intention of the coach to drop British defender Calum Angus. Rather Morgan praised his defender despite of so much criticism. He is also keeping Adelaja in his 18-member squad for Sunday’s match. A Gag order has been notified to East Bengal team members barring them from speaking to media. On this issue Morgan said, "As long as media does not stop spreading negative publicity about my players this will continue." It is notified that if players of the team talks to media those versions of the players are being tampered and presented in a wrong way to supporters. That is harmful for the team at the beginning of the new session. So from now no player will be available to talk to media. Today the coach himself met the press. He is satisfied with team’s performance in previous match. He said, ”It was a satisfying game. We wanted three points. And at the end we earned the three points.” However he is not sure of playing Lalrindika Ralte in the match against Peerless. He said, “Hopefully he will play. He has an injury in his calf muscle. He played very few matches in the  previous year. This year at the beginning of the season he got injured. So I will decide on the first XI tomorrow. However, he is confident on Calum Angus. The satisfied coach said, “Anybody has their opinion. He is a good player. Everybody is talking about his errors. But nobody is trying to find out the flaws of the goalkeeper.” However, about the mistakes the team did in the last match the coach is not bothering on that too much. In his opinion, “In the previous match there were no huge errors from any of the  players. Lack of concentration occurred in between. We faced lack of concentration from the defense and forward line.” Morgan hinted of keeping Arnab Mondal and Adelaja in first XI. Today Adelaja trained for the full session of training . He may replace any defender or midfielder during the match. Arnab may replace Gurwinder in next match. If Lalrindika does not play tomorrow he will be replaced by Bikash Jairu and Robert may replace Narayan Das. East Bengal coach declared that he has no idea of Peerless team. He said, “We will prepare as it is just another match.” Peerless team has the former East Bengal player, Rahim Nabi in their ranks. Today Nabi said, “I will try to serve as many balls to the strikers as much as I can. Our aim is to earn three points.” Coach of Peerless Fuja Tope also echoed the leading player of the team. He said, “We will play aggressive and attacking football tomorrow. Our aim is to earn three points out of the match.” Peerless in their previous two matches had a 1-1 draw against Tollygaunge Agragami and a 3-0 win over Aryans."