Calcutta: East Bengal coach Carlos Roberto Pereira said on Monday that it was “time to go back to the drawing board” and set things in order ahead of the Federation Cup, which will follow the IFA Shield in the city.

The Brazilian rued — after East Bengal’s exit from the Shield — the scoring inefficiency that remains his primary concern before the next challenge.

“You can’t teach a forward how to score goals. We missed too many chances… We should have at least scored five goals today. But this is what life is all about,” He said.

But isn’t he responsible for the team’s slide after winning the local league? Pereira admitted that “there’s a problem and the sooner we can find a solution to it, the better.”

On the one hand, he stressed that he had a “solid” bench, but on the other, he said he had to carry on with sick players like Alvito D’Cunha and Daniel, because “there are no replacements for them.”

Mahindra United team manager and former India player Henry Menezes said his team would take the tournament as “an opportunity to analyse what our strengths and weaknesses are and what needs to be done for further improvement.”