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 32nd 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.
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Head to Head in i-league |
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Total match played |
22 |
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Mohun Bagan won |
09 |
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Salgaocar won |
08 |
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Match draw |
05 |
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Total goals scored |
47 |
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Mohun Bagan scored |
25 |
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Salgaocar scored |
22 |
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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.
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
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Mohun Bagan AC Salgaocar SC |
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8 |
Total matches |
8 |
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2 |
Wins |
6 |
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4 |
Draws |
0 |
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4 |
Losses |
2 |
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7 |
Goals scored |
18 |
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10 |
Goals conceded |
8 |
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8 |
Points |
18 |
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9 |
Position |
2 |
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Murital Ali (2), Barreto (2) |
Top Scorer |
Ryuji Sueoka (7) |
