The round 10 match of I League between Mohun Bagan vs Sporting Clube de Goa ended in a draw held at Yuba Bharati Krirangan. Rahim Nabi the only goal scorer for the host in the 72nd minute of the match while six minutes later Kalu Ogba scored via penalty to level the score for Sporting de Goa.

The match saw not a very high quality football, while Mariners played well in the first twenty minutes of the match. But after that SCG made comeback into the match with good ball control in the midfield as well as failure of defensive players of Bagan.

Today Bagan TD kept single striker as Odafa because Barreto, Sunil, Ashim all are unfit. In the 12th minute of second half  Manish was replaced by Dhanrajan and Nabi changed his position to forward. Just before that N. P. Pradeep was cautioned by the referee and will miss next match.

In the 72nd minute from a counter attack Nabi scored the goal for Bagan but very soon around 78th minute  Bagan conceeded a goal via Penalty by Kalu Ogba, contributed by the hand ball of Kingshuk Debnath. Due to the handball he was shown yellow card and he will miss the next match against Salgaocar as well on 22nd December at Kolkata. However, Bagan players have to be careful about the yellow card shown by the referee. As many as six players are already cautioned in the I League matches once.

In the 74th minute Jewel’s head from a cross of Snehasis hit the post otherwise it could have been 2-0 in the favour of Bagan. But sheer bad luck for Bagan and Jewel as well as the fans of Mohun Bagan.

Nabi was adjudged as Man of the match. The home team’s supporters again left the stadium with deep breath and absolute frustration.

McDowell Mohun Bagan will play next against Salgaocar S.C.at Kolkata on Thursday, 22nd December. Kick-off time : 2pm.

Mohun Bagan: Sangram, Surkumar, Kingshuk, Anwar, Nabi, Manish (Dhanrajan), Jewel, Masih, Pradeep (Souvick), Snehasis, Odafa.

Yellow Card: Pradeep (Misses next match), Kingshuk (Misses next match).

McDowell Mohun Bagan will meet Salgaocar Sports Club on 15th January. This will be an away match for the green and maroon brigade; the match is scheduled to be kicked off at 3.45 PM local time. After conceding two back to back defeats, McDowell Mohun Bagan, the Kolkata glamour has slightly push themselves at the back of the proceedings. Firstly it was against Viva Keral and then Chirag United Sports Club who denied the mariners from taking the dream to reality. At the current situation, McDowell Mohun Bagan is having 8 points after playing 8 matches. They are at the 9th position of the points table.

Salgaocar Sports Club on the other hand, had a decent start to their i-league campaign. Having won 4 games at a trot at the very initial phase of this i-league, they managed to secure them at the second top most position of the current league table. The last match was probably the best game for Salgaocar SC when they stunned the mighty Churchill Brothers to register a 4:3 victory. Ryuji Sueoka, the ex-Mohun Bagan recruit was the instrumental behind the victory. He is also the top scorer for Salgaocar SC with 7 strikes with his boot. They are at the second position of the league table having earned 18 points from 8 games.   

We are going to provide a detailed season wise match summaries between these two teams starting from season 1997-98. Due to lack of proper data we are unable to provide the overall records involving these teams. 

 

Some of the notable facts:

 Since 1997-98 these two teams have met 31 times. Out of these 31 games, Mohun Bagan managed to win 11 games; Salgaocar on the other hand, had the smile for 10 occasions while 9 encounters saw the score line equally shared by both the teams after schedule time.

However 1 out of these 9 ties had been broken via penalty shootout. It was in the semifinal match of Durand Cup played at Delhi.

Only once the match was adjudged through a golden goal. Alvito D’Cunha in Super Cup final scored the golden goal and this has been the only golden goal scored invloving these two teams.

 In i-league encountesr only one hat trick was made and that was by Felix Chimaokwu of Salgaocar SC. Unfortunately Salgaocar lost that match by 5 goals to 4.

In the last 14 years only one match had saw two players scoring hat tricks in a single match. It was in the group league encounter of the 32^nd edition of Federation Cup held at Cuttack last year. Mohun Bagan came with a 6:1 victory. Jose Ramirez Barreto and Muritala Ali scored those two hat tricks.

Barreto is currently leading in scorers run with 14 goals to his name.     

 

 

NFL Tour for These Two Teams

During the early era of National Football League (presently termed as i-league) these two teams showed excellent skill of football game. Within first 6 editions of NFL, these two teams combined together to have 4 titles on their way. Out of these 4 occasions, Mohun Bagan won the championship 3 times where as Salgaocar SC had 1. The reader should remember Mohun Bagan was not there in the Super League stage of the very first edition of NFL in 1996-97. In the very next year they came back strongly and won the title. Salgaocar SC on the other side won the title in 1998-99. But recently both the teams are not up to their marks. Salgaocar SC got relegated twice during the course of time. Firstly they had got relegated in the year 2005-06 and then again in 2007-08 which shows that they came back 2006-07 to get relegated once more.

Mohun Bagan after having won the NFL title for the 3^rd time in 2001-2002 had lost their way in the next few editions of NFL. 2003-04 & 2004-05 was proved to be a nightmare for the supporters of Mohun Bagan when they finished at the 9^th and 8^th position of the league table respectively. Although Mohun Bagan came very close to win the title in 2008-09, finally they had to satisfy with the status of being second best team.   

 

NFL Tour for These Two Teams

During the early era of National Football League (presently termed as i-league) these two teams showed excellent skill of football game.  Within first 6 editions of NFL, these two teams combined together to have 4 titles on their way. Out of these 4 occasions, Mohun Bagan won the championship 3 times where as Salgaocar SC had 1. The reader should remember Mohun Bagan was not there in the Super League stage of the very first edition of NFL in 1996-97. In the very next year they came back strongly and won the title. Salgaocar SC on the other side won the title in 1998-99. But recently both the teams are not up to their marks. Salgaocar SC got relegated twice during the course of time. Firstly they had got relegated in the year 2005-06 and then again in 2007-08 which shows that they came back 2006-07 to get relegated once more.

Mohun Bagan after having won the NFL title for the 3rd time in 2001-2002 had lost their way in the next few editions of NFL. 2003-04 & 2004-05 was proved to be a nightmare for the supporters of Mohun Bagan when they finished at the 9th and 8th position of the league table respectively.  Although Mohun Bagan came very close to win the title in 2008-09, finally they had to satisfy with the status of being second best team.

 

 

 The Relative Positions in the last 14 NFL/i-leagues

 

 

Current Status in the i-league