Friday 21 April 2017

Can Aizawl FC restrict Mohun Bagan’s Sony Norde and complete a fairy-tale I-League triumph?


A Contest between the Best two teams in the League, is sure to be full of key battles, here is a look at a few that could prove to be decisive



On Saturday, a virtual identify decider in India’s countrywide home soccer league, the I-league, will see Kolkata giants Mohun Bagan face much less-fancied Aizawl FC within the capital of Mizoram.

Heading into this penultimate suit of the season, both groups are locked on 33 factors with MB beforehand most effective on head-to-head basis - which too is contingent on the approaching contest.


A win for MB sees the trophy head to Kolkata for the second time in 3 years, at the same time as a win by means of two or greater goals for AFC will see them complete an stunning fairy story. another result continues us ready until next week.

a competition between the pleasant two teams within the league, proposing some of the high-quality-performing players, may be full of key battles all around the pitch. here are some that could prove to be decisive.



Ashutosh Mehta (AFC) vs Sony Norde (MB)


Haitian winger Sony Norde is Bagan’s most treasured asset and additionally the person AFC have to watch out for. He has all over again proved himself to be the maximum impactful participant in the I-league even though his presence does represent an possibility for the opposition too.

With Norde on the sphere, MB have a tendency to channel a massive proportion in their assaults through the left wing, which he mans. Shackle him and you are three-fourths in the direction of absolutely disarming the Kolkata membership. Bagan have won the three matches that Norde has ignored this season, which includes against AFC in Kolkata even though it took a past due penalty to settle a 5-purpose game. however the Kolkata facet has played 4 goalless draws on the road with the Haitian in the side, proving that it certainly isn’t impossible to forestall him.

DSK Shivajians proper lower back Nirmal Chhetri, as an example, stifled him efficiently in a goalless draw in Pune, whilst wingers Thoi Singh of Mumbai FC, in a zero-zero draw, and Chesterpaul Lyngdoh of Churchill Brothers, in a 2-1 win for the Goan club, outshone Norde on the identical wing to present Bagan headaches.

On tune, although, and with area to run into, Norde will be decisive. MB’s simplest two away wins this season, in Chennai and Ludhiana, have come thru two Norde winners: both of them past due in the game, on the counter assault and one-on-one versus the goalkeeper—a cardinal sin devoted through the competition. besides these, Norde’s dynamic home displays took Minerva Punjab (MPFC) and Bengaluru FC (BFC) to the cleaners, whilst a fabulous unfastened-kick aim within the win over East Bengal furnished a well timed increase inside the name run-in.

proper lower back Ashutosh Mehta will probable be the person accountable to maintain Norde in take a look at, along AFC’s midfielders who will provide cover. at the same time as Mehta, who has started out in eleven suits and featured in all however one match, is often a sturdy defender, he's susceptible to making errors. It turned into his smooth foul on Katsumi Yusa which conceded the past due penalty in the earlier fixture among the two clubs whilst in a latest in shape, 17-year-vintage forward Baoringdao Bodo induced havoc from his flank. this will be the key contest.

Laldanmawia Ralte (AFC) vs Raju Gaikwad (MB)


If the Norde-Mehta warfare on AFC’s right will take hold of a whole lot of attention, any other taking place inside the contrary course could show to be quietly decisive. Raju Gaikwad at left returned is the Kolkata membership’s weakest hyperlink in defence. he's a software participant who has been beginning games because Subhasish Bose, MB’s young ahead-thinking left lower back, is injured. Bose’s absence has similarly constrained Norde’s threat in current games.

that is a shortcoming which will be exploited by using Laldanmawia Ralte, additionally known as Danmawia, who has scored three vital desires for AFC this season darting in from the proper flank. His desires have accounted for wins over EB in Aizawl and DSK in Pune, at the same time as another goal settled the membership’s last healthy towards Churchill. Danmawia nearly found himself in a scoring function inside the defeat to Bengaluru too, making a standard diagonal run thru the centre, most effective to be thwarted by way of an wrong offside name.

Jayesh Rane (AFC) vs Katsumi Yusa (MB)


two all-movement midfielders will conflict inside the middle of the park. MB’s inspirational eastern captain Katsumi Yusa, who has played every minute of the membership’s I-league season, will lock horns with Jayesh Rane, who too has featured in all starting XIs and missed simplest round 20 minutes of AFC’s marketing campaign.

Yusa may play at the proper wing, as he has executed for maximum of the season, or in the centre, as he did in the previous recreation however he's sure to run into Rane, an energetic player who pops up everywhere in the park. Rane is a winger with the aid of alternate however he has put in some stellar principal midfield performances this season.

each of those bustling gamers are the engine rooms of their respective teams and feature chipped in with goals too: Yusa’s three as opposed to Rane’s . A heavyweight struggle for midfield dominance is in all likelihood.

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