new delhi delhi dynamos coachcumplayer roberto carlos had said chennaiyin fc are one of the favourites to lift the isl trophy this year and after beating them on thursday the brazilian would have been a happy man from the other camp though chennaiyin fc assistant coach ashish nagul was not impressed with the result and pointed out that his side was the better of the two the dynamos won their first match of the tournament via an anderson cardoso goal in the eighth minute while for chennaiyin this was their second straight defeat nagul explained that even though the hosts played well in the opening 10 minutes chennaiyin were one step ahead throughout the game in the first ten minutes they were really good and once you are one goal down early it becomes a bit tough said nagul we probably tried too many things we were looking to equalize and were the better team in the second half we were unfortunate not to score but i can tell you the better team lost today chennaiyin had conceded two soft goals in their opening game against atletico de kolkata and even on thursday mendys wrong pass led to cardoso netting early however nagul defended his team things like that happen thats football we had a lot of chances and we failed to capitalise acutally they too did not create much chances in the second half we played with only three defenders still dominated the proceedings one of the many odd decisions from chennaiyin fc was the late introduction of fikru who was brought in the 80th minute nagul defended the move clarifying that questions surrounding the strikers injury was the reason behind the call injury concerns are there and we did not want to rush him we hoped john mendoza would be effective and he has a similar pace to fikru and he was good unfortunately we didnt get the goals he added