Jamshedpur FC moved up to sixth on the ISL table with a come-from-behind win over Kerala Blasters, which twice relinquished one-goal leads.
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Full-time: Jamshedpur FC 3-2 Kerala Blasters Bartholomew Ogbeche's own-goal in the 87th minute secures three points for Jamshedpur after Kerala Blasters led twice, through Messi Bouli and Ogbeche himself.
90+3' Jamshedpur FC's keeping the ball in the corner and running down the clock as full-time approaches.
90+1' SAVED! Bartholomew Ogbeche strikes from distance, doesn't have enough power on his shot and Subrata Paul, in the Jamshedpur FC goal, makes a regulation save.
We are into five minutes of stoppage time.
87' Jamshedpur FC 3-2! Bartholomew Ogbeche turns the ball into his own net and Jamshedpur is ahead with three minutes of regulation time left to play. David Grande's cross, intended for Sergio Castel, finds Ogbeche, who tries to clear it away but gets his touch wrong and it's ended up in its own net.
84' SAVED! Aitor Monroy finds Sergio Castel with a corner delivery. Castel heads into the ground and it's on target, but T.P. Rehenesh collects it with ease.
75' EQUALISER! Sergio Castel scores from the penalty spot and Jamshedpur FC has equalised for the second time tonight. Messi Bouli is penalised for a handball from a corner and Castel slots the penalty in the bottom-left corner.
69' Jamshedpur FC's seeing plenty of the ball, but it's struggling to penetrate the Kerala Blasters defence. Joyner Lourenco plays a cross from the right flank, trying to find Sergio Castel or Davd Grande in the box. But it's headed away to safety.
Substitution for Jamshedpur FC: Sumeet Passi OFF, Sergio Castel ON
62' OHH! Bikash Jairu crosses for Farukh Choudhary, who's unable to get his head over the ball.
56' GOAL! Bartholomew Ogbeche heads ten-man Kerala Blasters ahead! Jessel Carneiro finds him with a pinpoint cross from Kerala's left and Ogbeche powers a header past Subrata Paul to restore the lead for his side.
Substitution for Kerala Blasters: Sahal Abdul Samad OFF, Jeakson Singh ON
RED CARD! Abdul Hakku is shown a second yellow card after a dangerous challenge on David Grande.
46' Kerala Blasters gets us underway for the second half, playing from right to left.
SECOND HALF
Half-time: PEEP, PEEP, PEEP! It took a while to come to life but in the end, it was a wonderful half of football. Jamshedpur FC's fought back after the defensive error led to Messi Bouli putting Kerala Blasters 1-0 up, with Noe Acosta scoring the equaliser five minutes before half-time.
45+2' Bartholomew Ogbeche is shown a yellow card for showing dissent. He had been penalised by the referee for a perceived foul.
45' We are into three minutes of stoppage time.
39' GOAL! Noe Acosta pulls Jamshedpur FC level with a volleyed, left-footed finish! A wonderful team goal, set up by Aitor Monroy's unstoppable cross for Acosta, who applies a first-time finish.
31' SAVED! Noe Acosta with a dipping, swerving free-kick from the right, but T.P. Rehenesh gets his fingertips to it and saves! A well-disguised free-kick and Rehenesh was alert to what Acosta was trying to do.
26' CHANCE! Jamshedpur's Noe Acosta crosses for David Grande, who's unable to control it and the chance fizzles out. He still would have had plenty to do because the cross was fizzed into the midriff area and it didn't stick for him.
Substitution for Jamshedpur FC: Tiri's injured following his challenge on Messi Bouli and is stretchered off; Narender Gahlot replaces him
15' CHANCE! Messi Bouli has a chance to double Kerala Blasters' lead, but he shoots over from close range. Jamshedpur FC's defence is all over the place. A ball's played in the channel from midfield, it finds Messi Bouli, who drives forward and as he readies to pull the trigger, Tiri applies a bit of pressure from behind and Messi's shot flies over the crossbar. Huge let-off for Jamshedpur!
11' GOAL! Messi Bouli pounces on a loose pass across the Jamshedpur FC defensive line, rounds goalkeeper Subrata Paul and applies an easy finish, putting the visitor 1-0 up. Subrata distributed the ball out to Bikash Jairu, who tried to pass for Tiri as the home defence looked to build up from the back, but Jairu's pass was neither at the feet of Tiri nor Subrata but right onto the path of Messi, who makes no mistake.
10' Still very early in the match but both teams have struggled to string a few passes together and retain possession, which has at times been as a result of poor first touch and, at other times, the weight of the pass has been heavy.
6' Jamshedpur wins a free-kick in the attacking half, it's delivered by Memo Moura but his delivery is headed away with little fuss. Kerala Blasters has a chance to counter from that defensive header but Jamshedpur crowd out Mario Arques and quell the danger.
1' Just seconds after kick-off, Joyner Lourenco puts in a rash challenge, trips Gning and the challenge is deemed dangerous, which means he's shown a yellow card.
Kick-off: Jamshedpur gets us underway, playing from right to left at the Furnace.
The players are the tunnel, ready to make their way out to the middle. We are ready for the Indian national anthem. The national anthem, the customary handshake and team photos are complete. We are ready for kick-off.
Teams
Jamshedpur FC starting XI: Subrata Paul (GK), Tiri (C), Joyner Lourenco, Aitor Monroy, Amarjit Singh, Noe Acosta, Bikash Jairu, Memo Moura, Sumeet Passi, David Grande, Farukh Choudhary ( Substitutions: Rafique Ali, Narender Gahlot, Isaac Vanmalsawma, Mobashir Rahman, Aniket Jadhav, C.K. Vineeth, Sergio Castel)
Kerala Blasters starting XI: TP Rehenesh (GK), Mohamad Rakip, Jessel Carneiro, Abdul Hakku, Vlatko Drobarov, Mario Arques, Halicharan Narzary, Sahal Abdul Samad, Mouhamadou Gning, Messi Bouli, Bartholomew Ogbeche (C) ( Substitutions: Bilal Husain Khan, Raju Gaikwad, Jeakson Singh, Mohammed Rafi, Samuel Lalmuanpuia, Sergio Cidoncha, Shaiborlang Kharpan)
MATCH PREVIEW
A desperate
Jamshedpur FC will eye nothing but a win as it hosts
Kerala Blasters in the
Indian Super League at the JRD Tata Sports Complex here on Sunday.
Jamshedpur is winless in six games now and lost its last three games which has put it in a precarious position in the race for top four. Anything less than a win against Kerala Blasters could virtually see the gap with the top four become insurmountable.
While Jamshedpur is eighth on the table with 13 points, Kerala Blasters is a point ahead of it. The Men in Yellow will also be desperate for a victory. They have their tails up though, given they are coming into this game after back-to-back wins over Hyderabad FC and ATK.
Jamshedpur was second on the table at one point in the season before the poor run of form. Much of that is down to the injuries to key players like Sergio Castel and Piti. Castel’s goals have been sorely missed by Antonio Iriondo. No Jamshedpur player has, in fact, scored more than one goal this season apart from Castel.
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“We are doing as much as we can to win our games. If you look at the last match against Bengaluru, for example, we had more ball possession. We had 14 corner kicks and they had four. We created chances but we missed opportunities and gifted them the second goal. The way we are working and the way we are playing, it (winless run) has to stop soon,” said a hopeful Iriondo.
New forward David Grande will be expected to contribute soon. Farukh Chowdhury, who looked to be in good form earlier this season, has struggled of late. With six goals conceded in the last three games, the defence has also been erratic for Iriondo’s side. One feels Jamshedpur needs a rousing result to get some of its confidence and swagger back.
While Jamshedpur has trouble scoring goals, Kerala Blasters has been among the goals recently. Bartholomew Ogbeche and Raphael Messi Bouli have been amongst the goals, contributing 11 out of the 16 goals Eelco Schattorie’s side has scored.
Riding the recent wave of positivity, Kerala Blasters will be looking to make it three wins in three, something it has never achieved in the league stages of the
ISL.
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“I think the (top four) chances are still open as the teams above us can drop some points. It's very congested. But, to be very honest, I'm not focused on the top four but on the game against Jamshedpur, then Goa, and then Chennaiyin. So I go game by game because in football or life I don't believe in looking at things too far ahead because you don't control them,” Schattorie said.
However, Kerala Blasters will need to improve its away form. Its win in Kolkata against ATK in the previous game was its first away win of the season. Kerala has scored just 4 goals away from home. Only NorthEast United has scored less.
But now that most of his injured players are back to fitness, Schattorie will hope his side can grind out another away result.
The match will be streamed live on Hotstar and Star Sports network from 7.30 pm.
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