ISL: Chennaiyin FC win 3-0, ship East Bengal to worst residence defeat
Kolkata: Head thrown again, Dimitrios Diamantakos sucked in air wanting like he couldn’t consider what had occurred. Winner of the golden boot final season, Diamantakos has lower a annoyed determine after East Bengal signed him from Kerala Blasters this time period. The 31-year-old Greek has scored three objectives, 10 lower than what he had managed final time period. It may have been 4 had Saul Crespo laid it up for him. It will nonetheless have been okay had Crespo scored after an clever run to fulfill Nishu Kumar’s correct free-kick. However the Spaniard slid it and stabbed out.
That was within the fifty fifth minute. Three minutes later, Richard Celis had latched on to Lalchungnunga’s raking ball over the defence and was one on one with Chennaiyin FC goalkeeper Mohammad Nawaz. The Venezuela worldwide had flickered after becoming a member of within the winter window however with faint hopes of creating the highest six on the road and with East Bengal down 0-2, he shot out. And buried his head in his shirt.
Daniel Chima Chukwu accomplished East Bengal’s distress with a sucker-punch within the 98th minute ending his run of 13 matches with out a objective. That the objective got here as East Bengal had moved up and from a deflection following a free kick for the house staff accomplished the nightmare, one which ended with Lalchungnunga seeing his third purple card of the season. This was their heaviest defeat at residence in ISL.
There are numerous the explanation why East Bengal have had one other underwhelming season within the Indian Tremendous League (ISL). Accidents to key gamers, lack of depth within the squad, beginning with six successive defeats can be a few of them. Lack of sharpness and poor selections in entrance of objective can be one other. Saturday was the eighth match the place they couldn’t rating. That they had greater than double the variety of makes an attempt however it was Chennaiyin FC who gained 2-0 to maintain alive play-off hopes.
The primary got here within the thirteenth minute when East Bengal failed to trace Connor Shields’s run down the center after liberating Wilmar Jordan out broad. If Greg Stewart is the epitome of ultimate third ability in ISL, his Scottish compatriot Shields typifies the hassle each coach would need from their gamers. Lacking Souvik Chakrabarti with a suspension, East Bengal couldn’t take care of Shields within the midfield.
This time, Shields went round Prabhsukhan Gill and stored the ball in play which Nishu Kumar sliding in deflected into his objective.
It was 2-0 within the twenty first and this time it got here from Jordan Gill. Chennaiyin FC confirmed they’ve a factor for locating Colombians who could make an impression. In 2015, it was Stiven Mendoza who now performs for Membership Leon within the Mexican high tier. It’s Jordan Gill, who has scored 9 of their 26 objectives, this time. Had his purple card in opposition to Kerala Blasters not been rescinded, Jordan Gill wouldn’t have been accessible. He ended the night time with a objective and an help.
Irfan Yadwad confirmed the type of need East Bengal lacked, particularly within the first half. He tracked again to assist right-back PC Laldinpuia and contributed to the assault. Within the fortieth minute, Yadwad first denied Diamantakos close to his penalty space and operating down the flank, gained a corner-kick. It was his help that Jordan Gill transformed. “We had been repeatedly caught out on the left flank within the first half,” mentioned East Bengal coach Oscar Bruzon after the match.
East Bengal modified that with a reshuffle within the defence. However not having the ability to take their probabilities after which being hit on the counter made it one other irritating season. After 19 matches, they’ve 18 factors. In the meantime, Chennaiyin FC, identified for late resurgence beneath Owen Coyle, stay on 21 from 20.
