The video of this game should be showed in the football academies for

1. How free kicks are converted

2. How refereeing can be ridiculous

3. How  a technically poor goalie’s inclusion in a squad can lead to humiliation.

KEB got an early lead when Judelin unnecessarily committed a foul and DuDong knew Shilton is weak in (a) positioning himself (b) how weak he is on left

DuDong made no mistake and KEB was up 1-0 in 2nd min. That was followed by series of miss passes by Bagan players and series of wasted opportunities.

DuDong increased the lead in 38th min from a disputed free kick and  a similar shot (2-0).

 

Referee started favouring  KEB as  he gave a series of free kicks.

Not only that he gave Dudu marching order for  a play acting by Khabra in the second half.

Rafiq increased margin as Shilton was caught wrong foot (3-0)

Safar had a goal line save or else the score board could have been 4-0 in regular time.

 

The 4th goal came from  corner in 94th min as Rahul header kept Shilton away.

Mohun Bagan secured three points as they thrashed Police AC by 4-1. However Bagan conceded an early goal as Shilton was in a wrong position during a free kick and hence was not at all in a position to save the shot. It was Shilton’ s wrong positioning that helped Army score against Bagan in an earlier match.

 

However all other players gave their best, and built in the required confidence against the table topper East Bengal, the derby match being scheduled on 6th September 2015.

 

Lalkamal got the equaluser from an individual brilliance, and Lewis had a world class goal, unlike a goal that a scorer would not be able to repeat in his lifetime.

 

Dudu scored the third and Lewis nailed in by scoring a fourth.

 

Lewis was selected as MOM