Sealing it: Peprah’s 88th-minute winner gave Blasters their first factors of the season.
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Kwame Peprah had been injured for a very good a part of final season and even throughout his keep on the sphere he had been dwelling in Dimitrios Diamantakos’ shadow. On Sunday, the younger Ghanaian stole the thunder from Diamantakos, the ISL high scorer final 12 months, as he scored a late match-winner that gave Kerala Blasters a 2-1 victory over East Bengal FC on the Nehru Stadium right here.
Peprah had are available in simply 13 minutes earlier, changing the workforce’s star ahead Jesus Jimenez. The victory was Blasters’ first this season and the profitable purpose got here relatively dramatically.
Ok.P. Rahul despatched a cross from the left and Anwar Ali appeared able to kick away the hazard however Mohammed Aimen stole it with a sensible slide and despatched it to Peprah who fired it dwelling with a left-footer.
P.V. Vishnu, a 22-year-old from Kasargod, had given EBFC the lead within the 59th minute and Noah Sadaoui, the latest Durand Cup’s Golden Boot winner, had netted Blasters’ equaliser within the 63rd.
After the dismal season-opener in opposition to Punjab FC, Blasters coach Mikael Stahre had spoken about placing plenty of gamers greater up and that noticed a energetic match this night.
Regardless of having two males guarding him, EBFC’s Diamantakos seemed harmful as he bumped into the field and foxed goalkeeper Sachin Suresh with a sensible cross to his proper which Vishnu tapped in neatly. However Sadaoui was fast to degree the scores, racing in from the left, dodging a defender and discovering the online with a pleasant shot to the far nook.
The end result: KBFC 2 (Sadaoui 63, Peprah 88) bt EBFC 1 (Vishnu 59).
Revealed – September 23, 2024 12:53 am IST
