Chennaiyin FC prolonged its unbeaten run at house towards Kerala Blasters FC to 9 video games with a 1-0 victory on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium right here on Friday.
Aakash Sangwan discovered the online for the host — his first within the Indian Super League — proper on the hour mark. Farukh Choudhary acquired a throw from Sangwan and flicked a go to the Chennaiyin defender who minimize throughout the KBFC defence and despatched in a shot with the skin of his left foot, which beat the dives of Marko Leskovic and goalkeeper Karanjit Singh.
KBFC, presently on a five-match winless run, is fourth on the factors desk with 26 factors from 15 video games. Owen Coyle’s aspect lies eighth with 15 factors from 14 outings.
The first-half noticed each groups discovering it powerful to piece collectively productive passes as CFC and KBFC solely had 74 and 55% passing accuracy respectively within the interval. However, Rafael Crivellaro and Rahim Ali linked effectively collectively and examined the KBFC defence a few instances.
The customer needed to change custodian Sachin Suresh after he injured himself within the thirty third minute.
The second essay noticed CFC dominating proceedings. However, the house aspect was diminished to 10 males within the 81st minute as Ankit Mukherjee was given a second yellow card for pulling on Karanjit’s jersey.
Ivan Vukomanovic’s group, which missed the providers of striker Dimitrios Diamantakos because of an harm he picked up throughout coaching, couldn’t equalise regardless of attempting its finest.
The outcome: Chennaiyin FC 1 (Sangwan 60) bt Kerala Blasters FC 0.