Churchill Brothers FC Goa and Mohammedan Sporting Club performed out a goalless draw on the Tilak Maidan on December 17, 2023, within the I-League 2023-24. In a recreation of few clear possibilities, it was the house facet who virtually edged the consequence, Mohammedan scraping the purpose ultimately.
In a sedate first half, the house facet dominated the opening phases of the sport earlier than Mohammedan’s midfield duo of Alexis Gomez and Mirjalol Kasimov began exerting extra management on affairs. The former’s frequent forays to the sting of the field, the place he would reduce in preserve the Churchill defence guessing for a lot of the primary half.
The closest both workforce got here to breaking the impasse was halfway by way of the half when Gomez reduce in from the left, earlier than unleashing a protracted-vary try on the Churchill aim. But veteran goalkeeper Subashish Roy Chowdhury tipped the ball over. Neither facet was capable of create a transparent alternative, evident from how lots of the pictures got here from outdoors the field, and lots of pictures in useless. The groups break up 14 pictures between them by way of the half, a mere one among which — from Mohammedan — was on track.
The sample of play continued effectively into the second half, Mohammedan dominating the possession however doing little with it within the remaining third. Churchill had been feeding totally on scraps and shortly sufficient entering into scraps too, the sport more and more bodily and altercations fast and fixed. In the 56th minute, Gomez’s supply fell to Lalremsanga on the appropriate facet of the field and whereas the winger did effectively to wrap his foot across the volley, it was nowhere close to the goal.
Churchill ramped up their play within the remaining quarter-hour of the sport and had been those who got here closest to breaking the impasse. In the 76th, Emiliano Torre latched on to a protracted by way of ball, and regardless of having the house and time slashed his shot large. The greatest alternative of the sport although fell to Louis Ogana, who gathered Martin Chaves’ cross contained in the field and shot into the nook of aim, the ball trying destined to go in. As it was, Padam Chettri pushed it large to avoid wasting Mohammedan some extent.
