Kolkata giant
Mohun Bagan failed to secure 3 points against the back bencher of I-League
ladder Mumbai. F. C, match ended in an 1 all stalemate in the sevent round
encounter of I-League at Balewadi Sports Complex ground, Pune today. Odafa puts
the visitors ahead from an excellent free-kick on the 21st minute of
the game but they failed to hold that, veteran Abhishek Yadab scored the
equalizer for the hosts in the minute of the game.
Mohun
Bagan reached Pune today to play their first game under the supervision of
newly recruited coach Karim Bencharifa, lots of expectations were mounting between
the Green & Maroon supporters. He has taken the batton from the hand of
Mridul Banerjee, who has guided Mariners towards two convincing victories
against Sporting Clube & Salgaocar at home & a goalless draw against
ONGC in the away match. So it has to be told that from somewhere it seems that
Mridul is the better eligible to handle the critical situation, afterall he
took the responsibility when the side lost two of their starting matches in the
I-League campaign.
No midfield, no defence, no blocking, poor
goalkeeping, wrong strategy of Karim Bencharifa, one man army Mohun Bagan
fortunate enough to have 1 point atleast from their away match today, only Odafa
remains as a glittering star in between all those failures.
Odafa scored the goal from an excellent
free-kick at the 21st minute from the left side of the box, the
hosts custodian failed to get rid of that swerving shot.
Syed Rahim Nabi left the ground due to an
injury in the very early moments of the game, after that it was very hard to
find out any co-ordination between defence, midfield & forwardline. Due to
the injury of two key defenders Eche & Mehrajuddin, Karim started Nirmal
Chhetri & Aibar in the deep defence, but during the match both of them
looked like the living being of different planet, completely mismatched with
their duty.
Veteran Yusif Yakubu was leading all the
attacks for the hosts in the Mohun Bagan defence, the attacks were coming like
a tide on the visitors defence, sometimes safehands of Shilton Pal rescued
visitors but one major fault of that same Shilton graced the hosts to equalize.
Abhishek
Yadav followed a long ball & headed right into the Mohun Bagan net at the
62nd minute of the game. Entire Mariners defence looked like a
silent viewer during that goal, poor outing of the custodian Shilton made the
situation easier to let the ball go inside the net.
Currently Mohun Bagan is standing on the 5th
position of the I-League table with 11 points from7 matches while Mumbai F.C is
on the 8th position with 7 points from 7 matches.
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