Today’s Kolkata derby a flop show from every perspective.

       Today’s Kolkata derby is ended as an overall flop show from every perspective. The match is ended in a goalless stalemate, whether the merit of the match is concern it was never looked like an usual nerve wrenching battle, neither side deserved victory today.

        First time in the history of Kolkata derby it noticed the least amount of crowd today due to the heavy price of the tickets common people of Kolkata denied to come in the stadium which is actually taken away the entire craze of the game. Merely 25,000 crowd appeared today to witness this derby which generally gets more less 1akh people during that match.

        Victory was desperately needed for both the sides from that match, it was necessary for East Bengal to cement their place in the championship ahead while from Mohun Bagan’s point of view victory was needed for avoiding the relegation. But due to some unknown reason there was some lack of urge in between both the sides during ninety minutes. Although Mohun Bagan was in a bit of positive mood in the first half they are unfortunate to not register their name in the score sheet then.

        Mohun Bagan started more aggressively in 4-3-3 formation with Odafa, Tolgay & Manish Bhargab in the upfront sometimes Odafa & Bhargab as a winger in both flanks sometimes Tolgay & Bhargab as the same.

         While East Bengal also used the same combination from the beginning today Chiddi & Baljit Sahni was leading the attacks in upfront while Penn Orji was in a bit of behind in the schemer position.

        Since the beginning minutes it was very much visible that both the sides were suffering from lack of pace, no such kind of penetration was shown during the entire 90 minutes.

         Meanwhile Mohun Bagan got their first chance in the 21^st  minute of the match to register their name in the score sheet when Tolgay failed to find the net after dribbling past two opponent defenders.

          In the 34^th minute Mariners had the best opportunity while they were awarded a free kick in the right side of the box, Odafa himself took that brilliantly, beat the East Bengal custodian Abhijit Mondal but was thwarted by the left post.

        In the second half East Bengal looked muchmore positive & aggressive, they took the entire control of the midfield courtesy Mehtab Mondal & Penn Orji but failed to deliver the necessary thing.

        In the 80^th minute East Bengal had their best chance while Chiddi had failed to convert a head from  point blank range following a ball from Isfaq Ahmed.

         Mohun Bagan had few more chances in the later stage of the game while a Tolgay’s shot was cleared by the hand of Okpara, Mohun Bagan players started to appeal for a penalty which was denied by referee.

        Following that Quinton Jacobs failed to find the net from inside the box following a ball from Odafa in the dying moments of the game.

After that match East Bengal reaches in 40 points after 20^th  round while Mohun Bagan reaches in 6 points from 15 matches.

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