Odafa saved Bagan from a pitfall. He scored twice in last 4 minutes of the “6 minutes added time”to give Bagan a crucial victory over BNR! Bagan finally won the game by 2-1, thanks to Odafa’s individual brilliance in this thrilling tie at Mohun Bagan ground today.

However Bagan, in search of its form,  picked a bad time here today though in the first half, for the first time in Premiere League the midfield was a formidable one. However, the TD made a change in the second half by replacing Manish with Avinash that helped BNR to come back in the match.

BNR scored in the57th minute when Bagan defense collapsed and Prasenjit made no mistake in scoring for his team. The TD, realising that opportunities and not getting converted into goals – soon fielded Barreto and Odafa . That gave the Green and Maroon brigade some momentum and BNR custodian became more busy.

He had a good time until in the 92nd minute when Odafa scored his first goal, and within couple of minutes Odafa showed his worth to get past almost all of the BNR team to score his second!

Barreto scored a clean goal but the assistant referee rejected the same claiming that Avinash’s cross went out !

In the post match press meet Mariners coach Prasanta Banerjee told that the team have not played well but three points has come and it is the main thing in a League. Now Mohun Bagan will next play against Shillong Lajong FC in an I League encounter on Friday, 2nd December at Imphal. In Sahara CFL McDowell Mohun Bagan will meet Emta Mohammedan Sporting on 8th December at Yuba Bharati Krirangan at 2.00 pm.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that Sunil Chhetri will join McDowell Mohun Bagan on 12th December after trial in Scottish Club Rangers and National duty.

Team: Sudipta, Surkumar, Daniel, Kingshuk, Daljit, Sourav, Pradeep(Odafa), Manish(Avinash), Gourango, Sakhatar(Barreto), Ashim 

Scorer – Odafa (2)

Picture Courtesy: AAJKAAL

Mohun Bagan will play against Shillong Lajong in the I League match at Imphal from 1.00 pm on Friday, 2nd December. Due to local political problem the organizer of the match have scheduled the match at 1.00 pm in the after-noon. There is daylight problem as well at Imphal. Mohun Bagan team management has learnt that there will be grass on the ground. Meanwhile, ruling committee of Mohun Bagan AC has been re-elected once again.

Ex-judge Manoranjan Mallick examined the nomination filed for election today. But the number of filed nomination was not more than 20 and number of executive members are also 20. So, it is declared that ruling committee has been re-elected. There are few changes in the executive committee. Ms. Sohini Mitra has been the first female member  of executive committee. Mr. Anjan Kumar Mitra is re-elected as General Secretary and Srinjay Bose as Asst. Gen. Secretary. Debasis Dutta is Finance Seretary and Desha Priya (Swadhin) Mallick is Ground Secretary as the previous tenure. There is inclusion of new member like Soumik Bose, Atin Ghosh.  Uttam Saha is named as Football Secretary and Samrat Bhowmick as Cricket Secretary.

In the Cricket Mohun Bagan defeated Mohammedan Sporting by 256 runs in an A. N. Ghosh Memorial match on Saturday. Brief scores: Mohun Bagan 395/8. Md. Sp. 139/8 (Ramesh Krishnan 41, Sami Ahmed 5/41). Bagan won by 256 runs. Mohun Bagan is at the top of the Group B by winning the both the group matches, whereas Sporting Union and East Bengal have won the one each and they are at the second spot. Mohun Bagan will meet East Bengal at Eden Gardens in the local cricket league Derby on 29-30 November. The top two teams of Group  will advance to the Semi-Final.

McDowell Mohun Bagan will play against BNR at Mohun Bagan Ground on Monday, 28th November in Sahara CFL. Kick-off time – 2:15pm.

Mohun Bagan and Prayag managers met at the IFA office this afternoon as per schedule. They officials learnt during the meeting that the West Bengal Sports Ministry has asked IFA and AIFF to reschedule all the football matches to afternoons. mohunbaganclub.com has learnt that Sports Ministry has also indicated that YBK might not be available for football and will undergo renovation. As a result Mohun Bagan – Prayag match has been rescheduled to 2pm – and there will be no LIVE Telecast by the electronic media during the game. As per schedule there will be deferred telecast from 6:30pm.

There is a possibility of a low turnout since most of Mohun Bagan fans are unaware of the change in timing – a very late decision from the Sports Ministry will ensure Bagan supporters are at the receiving end. One wonders whether this was done to satisfy a handful of people who wanted to misuse their  power in Calcutta football ( or rather sports in general) ! A very good advertisement of a huge turnout will be followed by a very poor turnout – just because a handful of people wanted to show their power – which is not good for Bengal’s sports.

Meanwhile I League commissioner visited Barasat Stadium today morning and he will submit his report to AIFF.  He told that he is happy with present accomodation of Barasat Stadium. But the final decision will be taken by AIFF Authority. AIFF banned Barasat Stadium after the match of Mohun Bagan and Churchill Brothers on January, 2010,  where crowd made nuisance and the stadium authority failed to protect the players from that.