Power-packed: Diamantakos emerged the hero for the house aspect.
| Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT
With centre-back Milos Drincic scoring the match-winner and nearly producing one other within the final recreation, there was a remark in Tuesday’s pre-match media convention right here on how a defender was profitable a match for Kerala Blasters.
Hearing this, head coach Ivan Vukomanovic joked that maybe the group’s Greek striker Dimitrios Diamantakos must be despatched to defend.
One just isn’t positive whether or not Diamantakos heard that however he pulled out the house aspect from the deep with two targets on Wednesday evening as Blasters overcame a 1-3 deficit to carry Chennaiyin 3-3 within the ISL on the Nehru Stadium right here.
Kerala Blasters’ failed try on objective towards Chennaiyin FC.
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THULASI KAKKAT
Chennaiyin managed to do one thing no different group might do that season, it silenced the packed oval with a objective from Rahim Ali within the opening minute and pressured the host to maintain the amount on mute for almost the primary half hour by including two extra targets by way of Australian ahead Jordan Murray by the twenty fourth.
But Diamantakos, who had helped Blasters equalise at 1-1 earlier by scoring off a penalty after Kwame Peprah was introduced down, got here with a formidable strike by the hour mark, with a highly effective shot from exterior the field.
In between, Blasters’ Ghanaian ahead Peprah scored his first objective of the season with a magnificence, discovering the precise prime nook after Adrian Luna had set issues up for him. Both the perimeters got here up with some promising makes an attempt after that however couldn’t discover the match-winner.
The outcome: Kerala Blasters 3 (Diamantakos 11-pen & 59, Peprah 38) drew with Chennaiyin FC 3 (Rahim 1, Murray 13-pen & 24).
