Defense, Lien and rest of the season

It has been reported in a popular newspaper that the Technical Director of Team Mohun Bagan is upset about Daljit Singh for his poor performance against Dempo SC. mohunbaganclub.com finds this claim to be absolutely baseless and wonders the reason behind this kind of reporting. In the said match Daljit Singh replaced Rahim Nabi in the 58th minute. Dempo failed to score a single goal after Daljit was fielded.

Meanwhile Subhasish Roy Choudhury can join Mohun Bagan in lien. Bagan can sign in 2 Under 19 players as well.

Mohun Bagan 0-0 Salgaokar

Subrata Bhattacharya had no other options than to rest some of his key players against Salgaokar, and decided to field Jose Barreto for last 20 mins to see if he can change the scoreline. But the game ended in a goal less draw.

11th round :Mariners to meet Salgaokar

Souvik Goswami, an ardent Mohun Bagan fan feels Bagan should utilize the chance of moving up to top two of the I League table after Churchill Brothers went down to Pune FC today. McDowell Mohun Bagan will be facing the defending Champion Salgoacar Club in the 11th round of the I League tomorrow at the Salt Lake Stadium. It is a very good chance for Mariners to get back the 2nd position in the table if they come out as the winners in the match. In fact we have an outside chance of getting into the top of the table in case Dempo loses points in their match tomorrow.

Mohun Bagan will miss the service of consistent Kingshuk Debnath in the defence and the improving Pradeep in the midfield due to double bookings. It will be a big challenge for the TD and coach to fill up the gap. It is expected either Rakesh Masih or inexperienced but talented Sourav Chackroborty to take Kingshuk’s place in the stopper position. Bagan will continue to miss the services of Sunil Chettri and Zeleni due to injuries, however, there is some probability that ever reliable Barreto and the skilful Lima may make a comeback into the side after recovering from injuries. Ashim Biswas seems to be fit and may also be fielded in the team.

Till now, besides, Kingshuk, Sangram Mukherjee under the goal, Rahim Nabi, Jewel Raja and Odafa  have performed well in the I League and again the performance of these four should decide the fate of tomorrow’s match. We expect Surkumar, Anwar  and Rakesh Masih find some form and contribute to the team’s success.

On the other hand, Salgoacar consists a host of ex Mohun Bagan players. This includes the coach Karim along with popular Chiddi, Ishfaq Ahmed, Sueka, Biswajit Shah, Tomba Singh and Mehrajuddin. Chiddi and Sueka combination can be dangerous for our defence in absence of Kingshuk. This will be the first time Chiddi will be playing against Mohun Bagan after he left the club premises in tears . It will be indeed an emotional moment both for Chiddi and many Mohun Bagan fans. However, we wish Chiddi to remain emotional and does not score tomorrow or even play well.

We hope to come out winners tomorrow and establish our firm position in the I League table and would like to wise the team all the best for tomorrow’s match.