A second-half strike from Hugo Boumous steered Mohun Bagan Tremendous Big to a 1-0 win over 9-man Bengaluru FC within the Indian Tremendous League (ISL 2023-23) conflict on the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on Wednesday.
The house workforce didn’t get off to the perfect of begins and their defence was everywhere. Bengaluru’s Roshan Singh capitalised on it by darting into house close to the opposition field within the seventh minute, however his shot failed to hassle goalkeeper Vishal Kaith.
Juan Ferrando’s males ultimately discovered their rhythm and started to sew passes collectively to construct up attacking strikes. Liston Colaco had a shy at purpose, however his long-range effort was off track.
Bengaluru’s had just a few possibilities however their ending left quite a bit to be desired. This was seen within the forty ninth minute when Rohit Kumar moved into house within the attacking third and had a crack at purpose, however his effort was a routine save for Kaith.
The house workforce started gaining management over the proceedings within the last half hour. The international duo of Jason Cummings and Boumous got here to their facet’s rescue with the previous attending to a unfastened ball and squaring off a cross that the French-Moroccan. Boumous calmly slotted previous Bengaluru goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu to place his facet forward.
The visiting facet have been unable to carry on to their form thereafter and have been in all kinds of bother when Suresh Singh Wangjam was despatched off within the seventy fifth minute for a second yellow card. Dimitri Petratos was about to embark on a probably goal-scoring transfer however Suresh introduced the attacker down and was subsequently proven a purple card.
It bought worse for Bengaluru Petratos made one other run throughout damage time and was introduced down Roshan, who additionally obtained marching orders. With solely Gurpreet between the Australian striker and the purpose, Roshan resorted to fouling Petratos the referee had no selection however to awad him a purple card. The house facet held on to its result in clinch all three factors.
Mohun Bagan Tremendous Big Mariners will subsequent face Chennaiyin FC in an away sport on 7, after which they’ll face Maziya within the AFC Cup. Bengaluru FC will play their first house sport of the season once they host East Bengal FC on October 4.