Male (Maldives): The goal remained difficult to understand by Bengaluru FC despite changing fibers when they played a 0-0 draw with Bashundhara Kings of Bangladesh in their second group match in the AFC cup here on Saturday.
Bengaluru thought they had scored a decisive goal in the 74th minute just to see the header Alan Henrique Costa hit the crossbar.
With just one point from two matches, the Sunil Chhetri-LED team is now in a difficult position to advance to the knock-out stage with only the group winners who make classes.
Bashundhara, at four points now, must thank their goalkeeper Anisur Rahman for making a series of rescue in the match to help the Premier League champions Bangladesh get a potentially important draw.
In a match where both parties had sufficient opportunities to claim the three points, Rahman and Bangaluru across the Gurpreet Singh Sandhu both proved to be invincible, with the share of Bashundhara from booty which proved to be far more valuable in the group standings.
Bashundhara came to the match hoping to build their opening victory over Maziya Sports & Recreation, while Bengaluru did not have space for failure after their defeat against ATK Mohun Bagan, and no party gave anything in the opening period of Cagey.
Running Mazy from Bakar Bakar Bashundhara Robinho imposed Bangladesh’s talent owned by the Bengladesh champions, but the Bengaloro defender Yrondu Musavu-king who had the first real assessment opportunity of the game when his header was saved well by Anisur Rahman.
Gurpreet Rahman opposite was called for the first time when he tried hard from Brazilian Bashundhara, Fernandes, in the 33rd minute, before Bengaluru punching Bidyashagar Singh attacked Cross kick at the other end when the first half finished the cutting.
The game exploded in life in a thrilling sequence in the 56th minute, when Robinho stretched into the penalty and forced the rescue of Gurpreet, with Roshan Singh Naroem launched himself to make a cleaning of the goal line.
While Robinho was at the heart of all the positive things from Bashundhara, Bengaluru looked at Chhetri for inspiration, and the veteran striker was not too far from breaking the deadlock when he sent a narrow effort above the mark.
Bashundhara has been rejected in the race for the previous goal, and Bengaluru’s turn suffered in the 74th minute filled with drama, when the Chhetri strike arrested by desperate anisur.
The Indian side drove closer when Alan Costa’s headline from the resulting angle was hammered to the crossbar and to the goal line without entering.
With Bashundahra it looks tiring, it takes low-saving from an extraordinary anticuration to keep the tremendous purpose of Silva’s efforts with eight minutes left.
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