Jamshedpur FC inflicted an enormous blow to FC Goa’s aspirations for a play-off berth with a solitary function win in an Indian Tremendous League (ISL) fit right here on Friday.
The win took Owen Coyle’s males to 2nd position within the league desk however saved Derrick Pereira’s males caught at 9th position with 4 video games with out a win.
The solitary function got here thru Daniel Chima Chukwu (forty ninth minute), who scored on his first time out for Jamshedpur after signing for them within the January switch window.
The fit had an eventful get started with Chukwu sending his left-footed shot narrowly huge off the mark.
At the different finish, Ivan Gonzalez hit the bottom of the crossbar with a header. The rebound fell to Edu Bedia whose low shot used to be brilliantly stored through TP Rehenesh. The Gaurs threw in additional next assaults on the JFC defence however to no avail.
The primary part used to be very feisty to mention the least, which led to a few yellow playing cards being passed out to Alex Lima, Anwar Ali and Daniel Chukwu respectively.
The wounds and stoppages resulted in 4 mins of added time however neither staff controlled to damage in the course of the defences and ranking the hole function.
The second one part began with JFC pushing for a function they usually were given one in the course of the debutant Chukwu, whose volley used to be too tough for Naveen Kumar. The custodian were given each arms at the ball however may just no longer save you it from slipping into the again of the online.
Ali got here as regards to equalising for the Gaurs previous the hour mark however the ball didn’t cross in after hitting the crossbar for the second one time.
On the stroke of the eightieth minute, Airan Cabrera struck the crossbar for the 3rd time for FC Goa with a left-footed volley.
FC Goa trainer Pereira made a number of adjustments with the intention to trade the process the fit. Alternatively, regardless of making a plethora of probabilities, the equaliser eluded them as Coyle’s males defended their lead with a collective power and secured the 3 issues.
FC Goa will subsequent face an formidable Odisha FC in Bambolim on Tuesday whilst Jamshedpur FC anticipate the problem of an in-form Bengaluru FC on Saturday on the identical venue.