Defensive errors have been aplenty within the Chennaiyin FC-Odisha FC Indian Tremendous League fixture on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium right here on Thursday (January 9, 2024).
The honours have been break up 2–2 after a pulsating contest as Odisha discovered two late objectives to cancel out Wilmar Jordan Gil’s brace earlier within the second half.
Each groups had nothing nice to indicate within the attacking entrance within the first interval. Whereas CFC resorted to lengthy balls to search out its objective, OFC discovered it tough to piece collectively any significant efforts with its superior ball possession.
The sport, although, got here alive after the break.
Odisha custodian Amrinder Singh’s miss-pass was intercepted by an alert Connor Shields and his measured help to Gil was calmly transformed by the Colombian in entrance of objective.
The Shields-Gil pair pounced on one other likelihood shortly.
The Chennaiyin No. 10’s run by the left flank had the Odisha defence lose its form and Gil was stationed completely contained in the field to obtain the go and slot the ball in to double the host’s benefit.
The customer had a glimmer of hope when Diego Mauricio’s highly effective off-target shot hit Dorielton Gomes’ heel and went contained in the Chennaiyin web within the eightieth.
The Odisha forwards threatened to equalise all through the fag finish of the match and the customer restored parity by Mohammad Nawaz’s personal objective in added time. Rahul Okay.P.’s bicycle kick hit the submit and ricocheted onto the Chennaiyin goalkeeper who had no time to forestall the inevitable.
The end result: Chennaiyin FC 2 (Gil 48, 53) drew with Odisha FC 2 (Dorielton 80, Nawaz og-90+8).
Printed – January 10, 2025 02:01 am IST
