After a shocking defeat against Techno Aryan, Mohun Bagan players will practice on Monday morning. There will be a discussion between coaches and players about last day’s poor result as well as very ordinary performance. Stanly Rozario is not going to agree with this opinion that he had chosen the wrong first XI. He told that he has done as much as he can with this team.

Problem is that under -19 Suraboddin Mallick is not playing well and he is the best option among the other Under-19 players in the team. Apart from that Ishfaq Ahmed is also most ordinary, experts are saying that Snehasis should be in the first-XI in the place of Ishfaq. Jayant Sen also needs to improve his performance. Muritala Ali is not like Chidi, Muritala will score among 10-12 chances so it has to be created. Chidi and Barreto are still playing better football than others.

Stanly will start with three foreign forward Barreto,Chidi, Muritala  in the first-XI. Diamondstar may take place in reserve bench. His performance was also most ordinary.

On the other side Barreto is unhappy with the strategy of wasting time by the Techno Aryan players.

There will be  practice session on  tomorrow morning in spite of  political strike and the team will play against Kalighat MS on Wednesday 8th September, 2010 at Mohun Bagan ground.

The match between Mohun Bagan and Chirag United will be held on Sunday, September 12th instead of Saturday. IFA declared that due to Id-Ul-Fitre all the matches of11th and 12th September will be held on 13th and 14th of the month successively. There will be practice session in the morning on Tuesday 7th September instead of political strike. There will be arrangement to bring player to the club ground from club’s mess at Cental Kolkata. Practice session will start from 7.30 am.

There was a practice match today morning  between 1st and 2nd team of Mohun Bagan and Chidi  scored  a  pair of goal for the first team. Barreto did not take part in the practice match, he did physical conditioning and gym. Meanwhile there was a team meeting, which took place today about the defeat against Techno Aryan. After that Coach Stalny Rozario told that any match at the start of the season is tough. He also added that they should be given  time to build combination in the team. He is playing with new formation (4-3-2-1) and his target is play as much as on the ground level and riddle the opponent. He told that his plan is also not rewarding due to small size of Mohun Bagan ground. After all eight players of the first-XI are new in the team, there may be lack of indulgent between the players and it will be resolved by the practice only.

However, as fans of Mohun Bagan we expect that the team will see the success and give joy to fans.

Mohun Bagan faced a shocking defeat against Techno Aryan in their second match of Sahara CFL. Stanly, the only goal scorer of the match brought a sweet victory for his team and almost full strength Bagan team lost to them. It may not be decisive but later we have to find the way to get out of this type of situation, which is not expected for the team like Mohun Bagan AC. Only Surkumar Singh and Rakesh Masih to join this squad otherwise this team will play Fed Cup or I League with almost same squad. This should be the deep concern for Coach Stanly Rozario.

Before the match started there was light drizzle but the atmophere was very much pleasant at ground and it was almost full house.

Bagan started with same eleven, which has played in the last match against  Tollygunj. But in the 8th minute of the match Bagan defence conceived a goal by the defensive collapse. An Aryan player Mohon Sarkar dribbled two Bagan defender and pushed the ball to Stanly, Stanly made no mistake to put the ball into the net by his right footer. Sangram had nothing to do.

From then Bagan played a mind-numbing football, which couldn’t help them to get back into the match. Meaninless football of Mariners brought so much frustration to the supporters of the stand. It was really worthless. Barreto and Muritlala both were trying heavily to do better for their team but they are not supported by the others. Muritala has also not played well today, he has to improve his game for which club officials brought him. Average game cannot be the level to play for Mohun Bagan.

In the 37th minute Barreto missed a sitter. In the the 40th minute Bagan got a free-kick and Barreto kicked the ball straight to the Aryan wall, no damage done to Aryan. At the end 1st half Bagan was trailing by 0-1.

At the starting of the second half everybody expected some changes but to utter surprise there was no change. And the same meaningless football was going on. In the 55th minute at last coach Stanly has given the order to change. Sk. Azim and Edeh Chidi was bought in the place Diamondstar and Ashim Biswas. This Ashim Biswas played as a forward but it is really frustrating that he has not initiated or finished any fruitful attack. In the last match report we mentioned about him that he has to improve his game, and we are remained stick into the same point. He has to improve more and more and more. Literally all 55minutes he tried to follow the ball but failed. Another is Okwy Diamondstar. He has to improve a lot otherwse it will be catastrophic for Bagan for all the season.

Then all three foreigners had started from the front. Barreto, Chiddi, Muritala Ali geared up the tempo of attack but midfield was so dull that they have not got ample support.  One must also mention Aryan central defender Sourav Chakraborty for his gritty show. The 18-year-old nullified the trio of Barreto, Chidi and Murithala Ali.

Ishfaq Ahmed, the captain was the most failure player of the match. His distrubution, his ball control was not at the level best, which he has to do. Captain should indicate the dimension of the team. But Ishfaq himself was absolutely super flop today. There was immense pressure from gallery this time to bring Snehasis in the place of Ishfaq. At last in the 80th minute this change happened. But it was too late to survive. Yet a corner kick of Snehasis hit the cross bar and the ball went to unmarked to Muritala Ali, but failed to push the ball inside the net. This was the best chance for Bagan in the entire match. After that in the added time Bagan made a lot of attack but luck was not with them today. It may be a bad day in office. Accident happened sometimes but not daily. We hope Mohun Bagan will come back heavily in the upcoming matches.

Mariners will play their next match against Kalighat MS on Wednesday 8th September, 2010 at their own ground.

Teams

Aryan: Sibram Dey, Mohan Sarkar, Sourav Chakraborty, Mputu Eric, Anupam Sarkar, Surojit Roy (Phulchand Hembram, 79 th), Subha Kumar (Suvankar Nag, 90+2), Raju Koley, Snehasish Dutta, Babatunde John (Pankaj Moula, 88 th), Stanley Okoroigwe

Mohun Bagan: Sangram Mukherjee, Kinshuk Debnath, Rahul Kumar, Okonwo Diamondstar (Sheikh Azim, 56 th), Dhanarajan R, Surabuddin Mallik, Asim Biswas (Edeh Chidi, 56 th), Jayanta Sen, Ishfaq Ahmed (Snehasish Chakraborty, 81 st), Jose Barreto, Subair Murithala Ali

Referee: Biplab Poddar

Match Stats:

Opponent team	Aryans
No. of goal scored	0
Opponent scored	1
Number of yellow card shown to MB Players	0
Number of red cards shown to MB players	0
Average age of 1st 11	26.8yrs
Average age of the squad (registered for CFL till now)	23.6 yrs
1st half Score	0 – 1
Style of formation	4 – 3 – 3
Substitutions
1	Chiddi inplace of Asim Biswas (55′)
2	Sk Azim in place of Diamondstar (55′)
3	Snehasis in place of Isqfaq (80′)
Man of the match	Sourav Chakrabarty [U-19] Techno Aryan