SC East Bengal defeated defending champions Mumbai City FC in a goalless attract an Indian Super League match right here on Friday.
The outcome allowed City to take first place within the factors desk. However, their successful streak extends to 4 matches whereas SCEB is now 10 video games with no win.
The first to check the goalkeeper was Igor Angulo as his header was comfortably saved by Arindam Bhattacharya.
Daniel Cheema Chukwu was forward to threaten the objective on the different finish, however his effort at shut vary went too removed from the proper facet of the objective. SCEB suffered an early setback because of an damage to Joyner Lourenco, who wanted to get replaced by Ankit Mukherjee.
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Both the groups struggled to create huge scoring alternatives within the first half. The islanders dominated but it surely was troublesome to search out areas behind SCEB’s back-line. Due to versatile defenses from the Reds and Golds, each groups went into the half-time break on degree phrases.
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Mohammad Rafiq was despatched instead of Bikash Zayru within the second half. Minutes after the resumption, a powerful name for penalties from MCFC gamers was rejected by the referee as Adil Khan allegedly fouled Cassio Gabriel contained in the field.
The Brazilian then blew a long-distance drive which was skilfully off by Bhattacharya. Disappointment might be seen within the MCFC ranks as Ahmed Jahouh got here nearer to the long-range strike on the hour mark.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
