Name me for objectives: Saul Crespo was deadly, discovering the online twice on the night time.
| Picture Credit score: Thulasi Kakkat
East Bengal FC defeated a nine-man Kerala Blasters 4-2 on an evening when issues went horribly fallacious for the house facet within the ISL on the Nehru Stadium right here on Wednesday.
Shortly after taking the lead halfway by the primary half by a objective from Fedor Cernych who beat the EBFC goalkeeper Prabhsukhan Singh neatly, the Blasters – who had been taking part in their final match at residence within the league section — gave the impression to be in good circulate. However issues modified dramatically in the direction of the top of the opening session.
First, Jeakson Singh was despatched off with a second yellow and moments later, KBFC conceded a penalty in added time which Saul Crespo transformed for the equaliser.
The Spaniard added yet one more from the center of the field within the 71st minute to offer EBFC the lead. A couple of minutes later, the Blasters had been all the way down to 9 males when defender Naocha Singh was despatched off with a pink card for head-butting C.Ok. Aman.
Ten minutes later, Daisuke Sakai’s try to go away Naorem Mahesh’s shot slipped into his personal internet.
With the playoff berth confirmed on Tuesday night time, after Odisha FC beat Punjab, KBFC changed ISL’s main scorer Dimitrios Diamantakos and Cernych early within the second half.
However the residence facet, which had overwhelmed EBFC of their earlier assembly in November, shall be very sad with the best way issues went tonight.
The consequence: Kerala Blasters FC 2 (Fedor Cernych 24, Hijazi Maher 84-og) misplaced to East Bengal FC 4 (Saul Crespo 45+3-pen & 71, Naorem Mahesh 83 & 87).
