Chennaiyin FC scored a 1-0 win over former champion Hyderabad FC of their ISL league match on the GMC Balayogi Stadium right here on Monday.
Conor Shields’ seventh minute purpose for Chennaiyin meant that Hyderabad, enjoying its first residence recreation of the season, was but to get off the mark after three video games to be on the backside of the factors desk.
Hyderabad grew into the sport, created loads of possibilities, with the likes of Aaren D’Silva, Pennanen and Joe Knowles coming shut on a few events.
Mohammad Yasir was spectacular all through the sport whereas Joao Victor, Sahil Tavora, Nikhil Poojary and Vignesh Dakshinamurthy performed their position to maintain Chennaiyin underneath stress.
Oswaldo Alanis and Chinglensana Konsham have been strong on the again and hardly afforded the guests a sniff on purpose earlier than pushing for an equaliser late within the recreation.
Gurmeet Singh stood tall when referred to as upon however it was a textbook smash and seize from Chennaiyin, who made 30 fouls, noticed six yellow playing cards, and scored from one in every of its solely two pictures heading in the right direction on the night time.
Jonathan Moya got here on for his debut for the house crew with the likes of Felipe Amorim, Makan Chothe and Abdul Rabeeh did their bit however HFC failed to search out the again of the web and dropped all three factors on the night time.
The end result: Hyderabad FC 0 misplaced to Chennaiyin FC 1 (Conor Shields 7).
