This is Sportstar's ISL 2020-21 blog of the match between Hyderabad FC and ATK Mohun Bagan which was played in Vasco da Gama on Monday.
The 2020-21 Indian Super League coverage for the day is done and dusted. Tomorrow, SC East Bengal will take on NorthEast United FC in match 104 of the ongoing ISL edition. ( READ PREVIEW ) Until then, it is goodnight from us!
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ATKMB manager Antonio Habas: I am very disappointed with our performance tonight. We didn't win, despite playing against only 10 men. Hyderabad FC was the better side by miles. We had to win today to claim the shield. But now, we have to play against Mumbai City FC in a high-pressure game to seal the deal. We had a numerical advantage early on today and we didn't capitalise. We missed Marcelinho in the middle. He has a minor injury and I hope he's back for the next match. We have a few suspensions and hence we have to prepare extra hard for the Mumbai game. I'm expecting my players to bounce back soon and I know they will do it.
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HFC head coach Manolo Marquez: This was a very good performance from my team. We were down to 10 players as early as the fourth minute against ATKMB. It's impossible to not be proud of my players because it was difficult out there. It is a shame that we conceded that last goal. But I have no complaints whatsoever. With one player less, we made it more difficult for the opponent. We attacked only when there was space. So it was difficult for them to run through us. We were a bit compact at the back. I don't know how many injury-time goals have been scored this season. They said ATKMB's second goal was offside but I don't like to complain. It's very easy to cry when the decision goes against your side and stay silent when it goes your way. Referees and linesmen can be wrong at times. We still have a good chance to make the playoffs. So we'll keep fighting. If we reach the playoffs, I will be very happy. If we don't, I'll congratulate the other four teams and move on.
Post match reaction from both the camps coming up next.....
MATCH HIGHLIGHTS:
Meanwhile, Hyderabad FC is in a three-way tussle with FC Goa and NorthEast United FC for the final two playoff spots. Jamshedpur FC has officially been eliminated from the tournament as HFC has reached the 28-point mark.
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The ISL 2020-21 league stage will end this week and ATK Mohun Bagan and Mumbai City FC are still fighting it out for the ISL League Winners' Shield and the AFC Champions League group stage spot after tonight's 2-2 draw.
AND IT IS FULL-TIME! FINAL SCORE: HYDERABAD FC 2 - 2 ATK MOHUN BAGAN!!!
90+3' GOOOAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!! PRITAM KOTAL SCORESSSSS!!!!!!! ATK MOHUN BAGAN 2 - 2 HYDERABAD FC!!! David Williams takes a corner for ATKMB. He makes a short pass to Jayesh Rane. They execute a one-two pass and Rane tries to beat HFC keeper Kattimani with a curler. Kattimani completes a save but pushes the ball straight to Kotal, who finds the back of the net.
90' Six minutes of stoppage time to be added on at the end of the second half! Prabir Das tries to cross the ball into the box for ATKMB but the HFC defence reacts in time to clear the ball away.
88' TWO CHANGES FOR HFC! Sahil Panwar and Mohammed Yasir have replaced Joel Chianese and Halicharan Narzary, respectively, in the middle. Hyderabad coach Manuel Marquez has some instructions for his fresh faces.
86' CHANCE FOR ATKMB! Pronay Halder receives the ball in a good position. He has two players -- Manvir Singh and Prabir Das -- in front of him on the right flank. However, there's too much power on his long ball as HFC wins a goal-kick.
83' A COUPLE OF CARDS GIVEN! ATKMB substitute Komal Thatal is booked for mistimed tackle on an opposition player. Meanwhile, HFC goalkeeper Kattimani receives a yellow card from the referee for his time-wasting strategies.
80' DOUBLE CHANGE FOR ATKMB NOW! Komal Thatal and Pronay Halder have come on in place of Tiri and Javier Hernandez in the middle. Habas looks extremely animated on the sidelines.
77' AND IT IS TIME FOR THE FINAL DRINKS BREAK OF THE MATCH!
75' GOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!!!!! ROLAND ALBERG SCORES!!!! HYDERABAD FC 2 - 1 ATK MOHUN BAGAN!!! This was a long-throw from HFC full-back Akash Mishra. Aridane Santana escaped his marker with his strength and managed to head the ball at the edge of the box. It fell to the super-sub Alberg who beat ATKMB custodian Arindam with a wonderful finish.
72' CHANGE! The injured ATKMB defender Sandesh Jhingan makes way for full-back Prabir Das. Antonio Habas is forced to make a substitution here as Subhasish Bose moves to centre-back.
69' DOUBLE SUBSTITUTION FOR HFC! Manager Manolo Marquez Roca decides to bring on Roland Alberg and Sahil Tavora to replace Lluis Sastre and Liston Colaco on the field.
66' Despite being a man less, Hyderabad FC has given table-topper ATK Mohun Bagan a tough time tonight. Both goals have come off mistakes in today's game. There's nothing much to separate the two sides.
63' FOUL! Sandesh Jhingan brings down the Hyderabad FC goal-scorer Aridane Santana in midfield. The ATKMB centre-back should be extremely careful here as he is already on a booking.
60' BOOKING! Another ATKMB player is handed a yellow card here. This time it is Subhasish Bose, who will be suspended for a game due to an accumulation of cards. Liston Colaco is yet again the player who has gone down.
57' GOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!!!!! MANVIR SINGH SCORES!!!!!! ATK MOHUN BAGAN 1 - 1 HYDERABAD FC!!! David Williams executed a perfect interception to win the ball from Lluis Sastre. He then sprints forward and sends the ball towards Manvir on the right flank. The Indian forward takes a shot first time from a narrow angle. The HFC keeper Kattimani makes a huge blunder as he goes down on his knees. Manvir's shot was high and ATKMB has equalised.
54' YELLOW CARD! ATK Mohun Bagan defender Sandesh Jhingan pulls down Hyderabad FC forward Liston Colaco with an arm from behind. The referee immediately awards HFC a free-kick and books Jhingan.
51' CHANCE FOR HFC! Aridane Santana gets the ball on the right flank. He sends it forward to Liston Colaco, who takes a very poor first touch. The ball eventually goes out for an ATKMB goal-kick.
48' SUBSTITUTION! And, it is a change in the middle straightaway from ATK Mohun Bagan head coach Antonio Lopez Habas. He brings on Jayesh Rane to replace Lenny Rodrigues on the field.
THE SECOND HALF IS UNDERWAY!
A win will hand ATKMB the ISL 2020-21 League Winners' Shield, while HFC needs three points to keep the pressure on FC Goa and NorthEast United in the playoff race. The Mariners are specialists in finding second half goals and we have an interesting forty-five minutes ahead. Stay tuned!
An eventful opening 45 minutes come to an end. Hyderabad FC was reduced to 10 men after centre-back Chinglensana Singh was sent off early on. But the Nizams put that behind and took the lead via an Aridane Santana goal after a host of mistakes from the ATK Mohun Bagan defence.
AND IT IS HALF TIME! SCORE: HYDERABAD FC 1 - 0 ATK MOHUN BAGAN!!!
45' Two minutes of stoppage time to be added on at the end of the first half! Joel Chianese is given a yellow card by the referee for a mistimed tackle. Free-kick for ATK Mohun Bagan.
43' WASTED OPPORTUNITY! Aridane Santana passes the ball to his HFC teammate Liston Colaco, who gets away from the challenges of Sandesh Jhingan and Tiri. He enters the box and notices Halicharan Narzary in a good position. But he chooses to have a shot on target himself from a narrow angles and messes up the chance.
40' CHANCE TO EQUALISE FOR ATKMB! Roy Krishna receives a through-ball during a Mohun Bagan counter-attack. He rushes forward and supplies a brilliant cross towards David Williams inside the box. But HFC centre-back Odei Onaindia gets the slightest of touches on the ball to avert the danger for his side.
37' CORNER FOR HFC! Sandesh Jhingan successfully tackles Liston Colaco. The ball goes out for another Hyderabad set-piece. Joel Chianese is on corner-kick duty now. He sends a cross into the box. But the ball is cleared away with ease.
34' FREE-KICK FOR ATKMB! Both Aridane Santana (HFC) and Javier Hernandez (ATKMB) jump high to get to Hyderabad defender Nikhil Poojary's long throw-in from the right. Santana fouls Javi in the process to concede a set-piece.
31' AND IT IS TIME FOR THE FIRST HALF COOLING BREAK!
29' WHAT A CHANCE! Odei Onaindia could have doubled Hyderabad FC's lead here. This was another Lluis Sastre free-kick. He supplied a ball towards the far post and the ATKMB players were sleeping inside the box. Onaindia eventually headed it over the crossbar.
26' CHANCE FOR ATKMB! Manvir Singh receives the ball on the right flank. He sends it forward to full-back Pritam Kotal, who sends a cross into the middle. The ball is not cleared properly by the HFC defence as Subhasish Bose gets it on the other wing. However, his shot from distance is collected by keeper Kattimani.
23' CLOSE! Hyderabad FC winger Halicharan Narzary sends in a low cross into the box from the left wing. But the ATK Mohun Bagan keeper Arindam Bhattacharja comes off his line and clears the ball away.
20' YELLOW CARD! ATKMB forward Manvir Singh is booked by the referee for an extremely poor tackle on HFC's Akash Mishra. Manvir lost the ball in midfield and made a mess in an attempt to regain possession.
17' CROSS! Tiri tries to play a long ball towards his Mohun Bagan teammate David Williams from the other half. But he puts too much power on the ball as it goes out for a Hyderabad throw-in.
14' CHANCE FOR HFC! Halicharan Narzary plays a good ball to Liston Colaco on the right flank. Colaco tries to take a shot but ATKMB defender Pritam Kotal makes a crucial interception.
11' SHOT! Roy Krishna receives a pass from midfield and takes a shot on target for ATK Mohun Bagan. However, Hyderabad FC goalkeeper Kattimani makes a straightforward save.
8' GOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!!! ARIDANE SANTANA SCORES!!! HYDERABAD FC 1 - 0 ATK MOHUN BAGAN!!!!! Pritam Kotal intercepts a HFC through-ball to Narzary. However, he plays a lazy pass to his keeper Arindam. Tiri, who was close to the ball, realises late that Hyderabad striker Santana was close. But before he could get to the ball, Santana slotted it home amid chaos inside the box.
5' RED CARD!!!!! HYDERABAD DOWN TO 10 MEN!!! CHINGLENSANA SINGH IS SENT OFF! Roy Krishna headed the ball forward from a clearance. Onaindia came up with a weak header as the ball went towards David Williams, who was one-on-one with goalkeeper Laxmikant Kattimani. But Chinglensana pushed the ATKMB forward from behind to receive a red card from the referee.
2' FREE-KICK FOR HFC! Lluis Sastre will take this set-piece. He sends a cross towards the far post. But Odei Onaindia is not able to get to the ball as ATKMB wins a goal-kick.
7:30 PM: AND THE MATCH BEGINS!
7:15 PM: ISL 2020-21 is into the final week of league stage and an exciting race for top spot takes centrestage. ATK Mohun Bagan and Mumbai City FC are involved in a battle for the League Winner's Shield and a 2022 AFC Champions League entry. FC Goa, Hyderabad FC, NorthEast United FC and Jamshedpur FC are still in contention for the last two playoff places. ( READ FULL STORY HERE )
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6:30 PM: The team line-ups are out!
HFC XI: Laxmikant Kattimani, Nikhil Poojary, Chinglensana Singh, Odei Onaindia, Akash Mishra, Lluis Sastre, Joao Victor, Liston Colaco, Joel Chianese, Halicharan Narzary, Aridane Santana.
COACH: Manolo Marquez.
ATKMB XI: Arindam Bhattacharja, Pritam Kotal, Tiri, Sandesh Jhingan, Subhasish Bose, Carl McHugh, Javier Hernandez, Lenny Rodrigues, Manvir Singh, David Williams, Roy Krishna.
COACH: Antonio Habas.
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The seventh edition of the Indian Super League got underway inside a bio-bubble in Goa on November 20.
The tournament, spanning over four months, will see 11 teams play each other in a league and playoff format across three venues. Following the inclusion of SC East Bengal, this season will feature 115 games, up from 95 last season.
MATCH PREVIEW:
ATK Mohun Bagan would be looking to make its debut season memorable by claiming the necessary points to secure the ISL League Winners' Shield when it takes on Hyderabad FC at the Tilak Maidan in a 2020-21 Indian Super League fixture on Monday.
Hyderabad, the team from the city of Nizams, has also surprised all the doubters this season by making the top-four in the current standings. This increases the prospects of an interesting contest between the two sides.
Propelled by five successive wins, ATKMB is theoretically a couple of points away from sealing the top spot and a 2022 AFC Champions League entry. Mumbai City FC is five points behind the Mariners with just two games to go.
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HFC is placed fourth with 27 points from 18 matches. It needs a win to keep itself in contention for a playoff place. What would be charging up the side is the fact that it has not suffered a defeat since the start of the year and is unbeaten in the last 10 games.
Hyderabad, which owes much of its success to the managerial skills of its Spanish head coach Manolo Marquez, will have to invoke the right motivation to get the better of one of the sharpest attacks and strongest defences in the tournament.
Mohun Bagan has scored 13 goals in its last five outings, while conceding only five times. The livewire in its forward line is Roy Krishna, the Fijian striker who is the leading goal-scorer of the ongoing edition, with 14 goals to his name.
“We play against the strongest team in the league. Mohun Bagan are in the best form in the league. They have a very compact team and have very good players for the style Antonio Habas wants to play in this moment. With Lenny Rodrigues and Marcelinho, the team is more decisive,” Marquez said.
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“For me, Krishna is the best forward in the league. He can score in multiple ways. He is not tall but is clever. He is fast and knows in which moment he has to run. He is a complete centre forward,” he added.
Going by the statistics, the second half of the contest could well be the most absorbing. ATKMB has scored 21 out of its 26 goals in the second half -- which is the highest any side in the league. Hyderabad comes just behind, having scored 20 of its 25 goals in the final 45 minutes.
Mohun Bagan boss Habas lauded his compatriot Marquez for his impressive work at Hyderabad FC this season.
“Hyderabad have had a good season and we have to be confident against them. They have a good balance between their attack and defence. They have surprised everyone in the competition this season," he claimed.
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