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Kolkata: Mohun Bagan lost for the second time in the AFC Cup group stages to dent their chances of advancing to the next stage as a 10-man Maziya Sports & Recreation beat them 1-0 in a Group E tie here at the Rabindra Sarovar Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Mohun Bagan fell to Mohamed Umair’s goal in the 34th minute to drop to third position in the four-team points table, having three points from the same number of matches. Maziya have six from three outings after the win.<\/p>\n
Maziya’s Milos Kovacevic picked up two bookings in the span of four minutes to be sent off in the 86th minute.<\/p>\n
Mohun Bagan fielded an all Indian XI, resting key foreign recruits for their title deciding I-League encounter in Aizawl. Only forwards Jeje Lalpekhlua, Balwant Singh and Souvik Chakroborty were retained from the first choice starting line-up.<\/p>\n
Maziya were dented before kickoff as Andrei Alexandru Cordos picked up a knock and was removed from the first team with Samaam Gasim replacing him.<\/p>\n
In the 14th minute, Balwant twisted and turned to let fly a rasping left-footer which rattled the bar off goalkeeper Matiash Pavel’s hands.<\/p>\n
Maziya’s Aleksander Rakic took a swipe at goal soon after but his attempt blazed just over the bar.<\/p>\n
Three minutes into the half hour mark, Balwant made a mazy run into the box and got into a good position to score, but a rival defender did well to block his effort.<\/p>\n
Against the run of play, Maziya took the lead through Umair who capitalised on a loose ball inside the box to fire an angular effort at the far post.<\/p>\n
The tourists had a chance to double their margin soon after the half-time with Yasfaadh Habeeb heading just over the bar from skipper Abdulla Asadhulla’s cross.<\/p>\n
Rakic came close too for Maziya as Mohun Bagan wasted a raft of gilt-edged chances towards the end of second half to consign to their first defeat since March 14 when they lost to Bengaluru FC.<\/p>\n
Mohun Bagan have one more home game remaining in the AFC Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: Mohun Bagan lost for the second time in the AFC Cup group stages to dent their chances of advancing to the next stage as a 10-man Maziya Sports & Recreation beat them 1-0 in a Group E tie here at the Rabindra Sarovar Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Mohun Bagan fell to Mohamed Umair’s goal in the 34th minute to drop to third position in the four-team points table, having three points from the same number of matches. Maziya have six from three outings after the win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[3138,12975,466,21996,21997,379,19802],"class_list":["post-34384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football","tag-afc-cup","tag-football-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-maziya-sports-recreation","tag-mohamed-umair","tag-mohun-bagan","tag-rabindra-sarovar-stadium"],"yoast_head":"\n