Mumbai Metropolis FC’s AFC Champions League (ACL) marketing campaign bought off to a disappointing notice as they misplaced 2-0 to Iran’s Nassaji Mazandaran on the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Monday.
Ehsan Hosseini (thirty fourth minute) and Mohammadreza Azadi (62nd) scored for Nassaji Mazandaran, who have been making their ACL Champions League debut.
The house facet made a vivid begin and nearly opened the scoring within the ninth minute when Jorge Pereyra Diaz slipped the ball by to Lallianzuala Chhangte, who shot from a decent angle however couldn’t discover the goal. Mumbai Metropolis created quite a few possibilities however final touch and Nassanji took the lead, towards the run of play, within the thirty fourth minute.
Hossein Zamehran received the ball 20 yards from purpose and the Iranian playmaker turned swiftly to play Ehsan Hosseini by on purpose with a defence-splitting go. Hosseini made no mistake as he slotted the ball previous Phurba Lachenpa to place the guests forward.
Bipin Singh had a positive probability to revive parity on the cusp of half-time, however his effort was large of the goal after being present in house as Lallianzuala Chhangte rolled the ball throughout the face of the purpose.
Nassaji Mazandaran doubled their lead across the hour-mark when substitute Farshid Esmaeili robbed Akash Mishra deep inside his penalty space and rolled the ball into the six-yard field, the place Azadi discovered the again of the web with ease.
Mumbai Metropolis had a few possibilities in direction of the top as Vikram Partap Singh shot throughout the face of purpose and Chhangte glanced his header large because the hosts sought a late lifeline, however Nassaji noticed out 9 minutes of extra time to seal the win.