AFC Champions League Two | East Bengal goes down preventing to Altyn Asyr FC

On a excessive: Altyn Asyr FC gamers have fun a objective throughout their AFC Champions League 2 match in opposition to East Bengal FC on the VYBK Stadium, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024.
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Turkmenistan facet Altyn Asyr FC recovered from a objective deficit to beat house favorite East Bengal FC 3-2 within the Preliminary 1 tie of the AFC Champions League Two (ACL Two) on the Salt Lake Stadium right here on Wednesday.

East Bengal began with promise and located its initiative paying off within the seventh minute when David Hmar discovered the Asyr web. East Bengal confirmed the intent and the hassle to invade the opposition field at common intervals and located the break as Nandhakumar Sekar chugged up the left channel to arrange David, who dived low to attach with a tremendous header. 

The Altyn-Asyr goalkeeper Batyr Babayev blocked the hassle simply to see the ball rebound again to the East Bengal ahead, who made no mistake together with his faucet in.

Stung by the early reverse, the Turkmenistan facet opted for a high-press strategy and located the equaliser within the seventeenth minute. Myrat Annayev beat an tried off-side lure by the house facet and neatly positioned the ball into the left nook of the web. The host conceded additional as Altyn-Asyr made it 2-1 within the twenty seventh minute off a tremendous free-kick conversion from Selim Nurmyradov.

The customer continued to impress with its mixture play after the interval, which helped it breach the East Bengal defence as soon as once more early within the second half.

Myrat Annayev did the arduous work as he sped up the suitable to fireside an angular shot that was tapped house by Mihail Titov to create a two-goal cushion for Altyn-Asyr within the 52nd minute.

Spanish midfielder Saul Crespo confirmed some tremendous expertise to dribble previous a few Asyr defenders and eventually curled it previous the opponent goalkeeper to make it 2-3 for East Bengal.

The host put up a terrific struggle hereafter and nearly obtained the equaliser within the eightieth minute simply to see the objective by its Brazilian ahead Cleiton Silva disallowed by the referee for an infringement. The loss meant East Bengal will now be taking part in within the AFC Problem Cup later within the yr.

The outcome: East Bengal FC 2 (David Hmar 7, Saul Crespo 59) misplaced to Altyn Asyr FC 3 (Myrat Annayev 17, Selim Nurmyradov 27, Mihail Titov 52).