Churchill Brothers continue their dream run by derailing East Bengal.

        Churchill Brothers continue their dream run hammering East Bengal by a clear 3-0 margin at Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata today. Hendry Antchouet scored a brace in the 32^nd & the added injury time of the first half while Akram Mograbi scored the third in the 83^rd minute of the match.

          All eyes were set towards this high voltage encounter of this I-League.

           It was the battle between the two best teams of this I-League according to two different perspectives, prior to this match Churchill Brothers scored the most number of goals by scoring 37^th in this I-League so far while East Bengal is the side who has conceded the less number of goals only six so far.

            It was also the battle between two masterminds East Bengal coach James Morgan & technical director of Churchill Brothers Subhas Bhowmik. Regarding this season’s performance Morgan started a bit of ahead against his counterpart while Morgan won both two occasions in their previous meetings first in Federation cup semifinal & second in the first leg encounter of this I-League.

         Morgan started with 4-4-2 formation, he tried to go allout from the beginning by introducing Robert instead of Saumik Dey & Larindika Ralte instead of Naoba Singh in his starting line up.

           While  Subhas Bhowmik started with a 3-5-2 formation surprisingly keeping his main weapon Lebanon’s striker Akram Mograbi out of the starting line up, instead of Akram he introduced Hendri in his first eleven which strategy became quiet fruitful for him later.

           It was East Bengal who started to attack while Lalrindika Ralte's shot just rebounded of the wall and when the ball is played back in the offside flag went up by assistant referee in the 12^th minute of the game.

             In the 16th minute Arnab Mondal made a clear handball while trying to clear a corner taken by Steven Dias, the visitors started to appeal for the penalty but referee denied them this time.

            In the 34^th minute Hendri scored the first goal for the visitors following a free-kick taken by Steven Dias which was initially saved by the East Bengal custodian Abhijeet Mondal.

In the injury time of the first half Hendri scored the second following a great through ball from Leni Rodriguez from right side.

            East Bengal started to counter from the beginning of the second half but repeatedly blocked by Raju Yumnam, Bilal & Sandip Nandy in the opponent defence. Sometimes they looked lack of penetration in their attacking third.

           In the 79^th minute of the game Subhas Bhowmik introduced Akram in the place of Hendri which once again worked in his fore.

           Akram scored the third for his side & sealed the match following a skimming free-kick from the right taken by Beto himself, during that goal East Bengal defence remain standstill rather blocking it out.

            Throughout the match if we go through we will get that during his two goals Hendri never tried to fire sitters instead of that he brilliantly just tried to direction of the ball swiftly towards the net.

           The visitors custodian Sandeep Nandy has show his efficiency against his former teammates, he remain unbeaten throughout the game, worked like a fortress in the last line of defence, whatever went towards his side blocked by his safehands, he didn’t allow a single ball to get pass him in any kind of circumstance during the match today.

           Subahs Bhowmik alongwith the entire Churchill Brothers side have taken the sweet revenge with interest keep reminding their first leg home defeat against the same opponents in the same margin. Eventually it’s Churchill Brothers straight ninth win in a row in this I-League.

           From here we can say that East Bengal is clearly derailed from this I-League track. They remain 33 points after 17^th round while Churchill reached to 37 points from 15 matches which puts them one step ahead to this I-League crown.

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