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Mohun Bagan pips Chennai

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Mohun Bagan managed to secure three points today after they defeated Chennai City FC by 2-1. Jeje and Sony scored for Mohun Bagan today.
However, Bagan did miss Anas’sservice today. Edoardo’s weaknesses were exposed as he failed to manage Marcos. Marcos almost scored twice in the first half, and actually scored past Edu in the second half. Edu was found crawling in a failed attempt to stop Marcos.

Three players had positive runs for Bagan today, Sony, Shubhasish and Debjit. Pronay and Pritam still managed to create some opportunities, but Souvik and Yusa were way off the match. Sony missed a penalty today, and a Jeje goal was cancelled as the assistant referee felt he was offside. Howevwr Sony helped Jeje scored the equaliser, and later scored the winning goal on individual attempt. Prabir , who came as a sub , failed to score from 4 yards. Bagan missed many more opportunity to score.

Coach keeps on saying that he needs performers to.make it to the playing XI, it will be interesting to see how he uses Yusa, who performed well three years back.

Performance improved. Duffy, Jeje score a brace against Minerva

Mohun Bagan secured three vital points after the team got past Minerva Punjab FC by 4-0. Duffy and Jeje scored two goals each. Both of them missed few chances and failed to get the first hattrick of the tournament.

Bagan started with Jeje and Duffy upfront, Sony from left, Yusa from right and central midfield with Souvik and Pronay.

Subhasish was back in the team after a match suspension. Edu donned the Bagan jersey for the first time. Anas and Pritam were there along with Debjit.

Sony, Pritam and Edu had some misses , one of Sony’s shots hit the bar, Pritam shot went wide, Balwant who later came in place of Duffy had few misses as well.

However the coach will have to work upon the positions and overlapping of Edu. There were two instances where Edu’s mistakes could have been costly.

However, Subhasish, Anas and Pritam did well today. Pronay has improved a lot and did not commit unnecessary fouls today. Souvik needs to play as per his ability now. It will be interesting to see what instructions coach gives to Yusa to make him lethal like Sony, Yusa so far has failed to become lethal and sharp and has been easily stopped by opponents. His passes also were stopped comfortably.

Bagan will be going to Chennai to play the next game on 21st January.

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Duffy back in action

Mohun Bagan wins the second game of the iLeague after Darryl Duffy scored one goal each in each half to become Hero of the Match. Duffy’s goals were apt and showed his attitude within the box. He also played well on the right side and made quite a few moves.

Bagan had a new defense today and Souvik Ghosh came back to starting XI after a long gap. However Kingshuk and Anas did well to ensure Lajong does not find goals. Debjit also saved two goals. Pritam did well to overlap and come down and defend.

Sehnaz led the midfield well, Souvik also made the midfield compact , but he missed few opportunities. Raynier played for Bagan for the first time and was quite impressive.

Balwant and Duffy created some panic in the box, and for the second goal Duffy scored when Balwant was blocked.

However, Yusa still has opportunities of improvements.

However, Rowan continues to show the worth of Indian referees. Duffy once was fouled inside the box, which any “good and able” referee will mark as a penalty, but Rowan gave foul against Duffy. Once a clear throw in was given against Bagan. Yusa and Duffy were fouled many times and Rowan ignored.

The only decision where Rowan was right was perhaps booking Pronay after Pronay fouled a Lajong player unnecessarily.

Rowan , like most other Indian referees was filled with lots of errors, however it was not sure if the errors were intentional or Rowan was really not a quality referee, like most other Indian referees.