Pro Kabaddi 9 Highlights: Patna Pirates vs Telugu Titans - Monu Goyat, Siddharth Desai hand Titans first win of season

Telugu Titans get their first win of the season. Manjeet Chhillar can now smile but he’s wearing a poker face. Loads of positives for this Titans outfit as Monu and Siddharth Desai strike form.

Abdul carries Parvesh Bhainswal to the midline. But this game is as good as done

Surjeet maintains the 10-point lead by leading a huddle that takes down and brings down Sachin Tanwar. Great, albeit slightly slippery block. But job done!

Monu Goyat loses his place on the mat but he’s wasted enough time to frustrate Patna

Monu gets an anklehold on Rohit Gulia to get his tenth overall point of the night. What a night for the old warhorse

Shadloui gets his second tackle point of the night with Vinay taken down on a do-or-die raid for Titans. Timeout called.

Vishwas is thumped out on the left. Poor raid. Textbook simple tackle

Something’s up with Sachin as he’s called aside for some medical attention. Vishwas goes instead.

Rohit Gulia gets a touch and moves through the lobby but referee says he’s out as no point of his body is on the mat. Review validates referee’s decision. PATNA LOSES ITS REVIEW

Manjeet Chhillar is furious as he spoke to his defence on how to neutralise Rohit Gulia but Vishal Bharadwaj gets hasty and sacrifices his position to Gulia. Monu Goyat comes up with a bonus in a do-or-die raid

Suhail CHandoke on comms says that Shadloui has had a long travel to come back to PKL, a journey that involved a six-hour layover in Chennai. Not surprising that he’s cramped up, eh?

Asst coach Manjeet Chhillar has asked Titans to play 30 second raids to force Patna to whilt under pressure

Lovely tackle on Siddharth Desai from Mohammadreza Chiyaneh Shadloui who immediately goes down with a cramp on his right calf. He immediately whacks his calf, almost like he’s asking the cramp to leave. He is taken off the mat for some treatment. The Iranian is angry through it all.

Sachin picks up a bonus

Surjeet was caught sleeping there in the middle of the mat as Sachin runs off with a touch on the veteran defender. He can do nothing but whack himself for gifting that point to a struggling Pirates outfit

Anything Patna does, Telugu can do and do better. Vishwas is taken out by Vinay with some support from his teammates

Chain anticipates well as Monu runs right into it on the right. Good support from Chiyaneh

Parvesh Bhainswal showing glimpses of his calibre here. Abdul Insamam brought down

Siddharth gets a kick on Neeraj. HEALTHY PERFORMANCE from the Bahubali

Sachin looked like a headless chicken in this do-or-die raid as he runs out of time and then falls into the Titans defence

Should Patna have persisted with Yuvaraj who was quite promising in the left corner? A player who was making attempts and figuring out ways to contribute. Shadloui has not even attempted too many tackles. Should he have been given some more time to settle into things in the Patna outfit?

Manjeet Chhillar’s instruction to his star raider is clear. GET THOSE BONUSES

Patna will be happy to have Chiyaneh back but it’s made no difference as such as the team looked listless in too many passages of the first half. The game begin as a tussle of the raiders with the defence not managing a point for a considerable part early on. Sachin finds himself shouldering raiding worries singlehandedly even though he has Rohit Gulia for company to pick those points. Siddharth Desai and Monu Goyat have both had a great game for a change with 14 points between them. The defence for both sides have barely had anything to do but given Patna’s raiding department is struggling, the defece needs to step up if the side wants to avoid going winless for the third game in a row.

Siddharth Desai gets a bonus while Rohit Gulia follows with a touch on Vijay Kumar

Rohit Gulia takes out Monu Goyat. Monu seems to have been placed there for Rohit but lacks in execution this one time.

Siddharth Desai has taken out Sunil, Neeraj Kumar and Patna’s frustration is showing. Everyone has frowns on his face.

Rohit Gulia takes out Parvesh Bhainswal

Monu Goyat DRAGS Shadloui to the midline after a touch on Insamam. Monu wipes out his former side as Titans pick up an eight point lead now!

Monu is having some game here. He takes out Sunil. Abdul Insamam get a bonus for Patna right after

Sachin is scrappy here as he fails to break through the right chain. Telugu inching away

Two points for Monu as he gets Neeraj and Sajin who come in with a tackle that could have been avoided or committed too better.

Only three Titans players were on the mat and the men curl around Rohit Gulia to send him out

Rohit Gulia takes out Parvesh Bhainswal and the latter gets a earful from Manjeet Chhillar as he settles into the bench

Sunil gets a double ankle hold in place but slips out. However, Shadloui and the left defence is here to push Vinay out of the mat with no chance to cross the midline

Sachin steps into the lobby and he realises that and loses composure before walking right into the Titans defensive hold

Sunil brings down Siddharth Desai on the right flank as he’s pushed out of the mat with no chance to bring his dangling hand within bounds to go past the midline

Sachin removes Vishal Bharadwaj as he comes forward for an unnecessary tackle

Sachin takes out Vishal Bharadwaj. Vinay removes Sajin. Rohit Gulia blindsides Vijay Kumar with a toe touch while Siddharth Desai follows it up with a bonus

Siddharth Desai gets his man! After being tentative, Desai gets a massive touch

Monu Goyat has woken up on the right side of the bed today. Titans are actively avoiding Shadloui and for good reason. He picks out Rohit Gulia on the right. Abdul Insamam gets a bonus for Patna right after

Sachin returns the favour with a touch on Vinay.

Siddharth Desai ploughs through the Patna defence in Sajin to get himself a raid point

Sachin gets Patna’s first point of the night as he gets out swiftly from Vinay’s attempted tackle on the right flank.

Bonus for Monu Goyat. Too easy

Monu Goyat gets the first points for the Titans. He draws the defenders out of the right cover. Captain Neeraj falls for the experienced raider’s trap. Point wasted here for the Pirates. The overeagerness needs to be contained here for the men in green.

Shadloui looking a little nervy here but Siddharth Desai gets off with an empty raid. Sachin follows with an empty raid himself.

Patna Pirates has won the toss. Telugu Titans will raid first.

Patna Pirates: Sachin, Neeraj Kumar, Sajin C, Rohit Gulia, Abdul Insamam, Sunil, Mohammadreza Chiyaneh

Telugu Titans: Siddharth Desai, Surjeet Singh, Parvesh Bhainswal, Vinay, Monu Goyat, Vijay Kumar, Vishal Bharadwaj

Mohammadreza Chiyaneh Shadloui is warming up ahead of the Patna Pirates vs Telugu Titans game. Good news for the Patna defence. Hope his fitness is being watched carefully.

This is not the bad news it looks like for the Titans. Pahal, despite his stellar record, has faded in the last few seasons and has turned into a liability in defence. Sitting him out for a bit might just help figure out his role better and plug those gaps for the Titans. That means that Surjeet and Vishal Bharadwaj need to step up.

Three-time champion Patna Pirates have one tie and a loss to their name and are still searching for their first win. Sachin scored eight raid points in the opener and was the top raider for the side while Rohit Gulia was the star raider in the second match and earned 11 points for his side. The Pirates would be relying heavily on Sachin and Rohit Gulia to do the bulk of scoring in the attack. Vishwas has looked good in bits and pieces and the raider would look to show his prowess in this game. Neeraj Kumar, the captain of the side is yet to join the party and will look to be an asset in defence. However, Sunil and Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj have shown their power in the defence with five and four tackle points to their credit and Patna Pirates will bank on these two defenders.

Telugu Titans got off to a dismal start in vivo Pro Kabaddi Season 9 as they lost the last two matches they played. In their first game, Rajnish with seven raid points and Parvesh Bhainswal with three tackle points were the top performers for the team. In their second contest, Monu Goyat with seven raid points and Vishal Bhardwaj with three tackle points were the pick of the players for Telugu Titans. Telugu Titans would be expecting their star players like Abhishek Singh and Siddharth Desai to go all guns blazing in this crucial fixture. Ankit Beniwal is also a talented raider and can also be a lethal force in attack. Their power defenders like Vishal Bhardwaj, Parvesh Bhainswal and Ravinder Pahal would be expected to live up to the billing and help Telugu Titans to register their first win of the season.

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Pro Kabaddi Season 9 will be telecast live on the Star Sports Network and Disney+ Hotstar from 8:30 PM onwards on Tuesday.

HARYANA STEELERS

Raiders: Manjeet, Meetu, K. Prapanjan, Mohammad Esmaeil Maghsoudlou Mahalli, Rakesh Narwal, Vinay, Sushil, Manish Gulia, Lovepreet Singh, Lovepreet Singh

Defenders: Jaideep Dahiya, Joginder Singh Narwal, Amirhossein Bastami, Naveen, Sunny, Monu, Harsh, Ankit, Mohit

All-Rounders: Nitin Rawal

TAMIL THALAIVAS

Raiders: Pawan Kumar Sehrawat, Ajinkya Ashok Pawar, Sachin, Himanshu Narwal, Himanshu Singh, Narender.

Defenders: Sagar, Ankit, M Abhishek, Ashish, Md. Arif Rabbani, Himanshu, Mohit, Sahil Gulia, Arpit Saroha.

All-Rounders: Visvanath V, Thanushan Laxmamoha, K Abhimanyu.