Magao: ATK Mohun Riding Chart at Liston Colaco which was brilliant shows to ride to second place after they beat the Northeast Wood Spoun United FC 3-1 in the Indian Super League here on Saturday.
Suhair Vadakkepeedika (17) gave NEUFC excellence from an early age before Joni Cauko (22) only draw a level for Liston (45) to make it 2-1 just before half time.
Liston was in the entire Neufc in the second half when he feeded Manvir Singh (52) for the team’s third goal before making his way for Kiyan Nassiri in the 66th minute to cover a brilliant night.
The result means that ATKMB is now in 26 points from 14 matches, two adrift of leaders of Hyderabad FC who have played two more matches.
NEUFC remains rock-bottom with 10 points from 17 matches.
ATKMB extended their invincible streak to 10 matches.
ATKMB missed Hugo Boumous and Carl Mchugh’s key player service because both of them took injuries in the last match.
As expected, the Mariners began at the front foot with the initial angle of Liston Colaco posing a small threat and Manvir Singh’s efforts saved by Subhasish Roy Choudhury.
Against play playing, NEUFC leads.
Marcelinho got a loose ball in the middle of the park and ran in the ATKMB defense to find Suhair who was hiding from the edge of the box to beat Amrinder Singh in the goal.
ATKMB returned to the game immediately after cutting a short NEUFC excitement when Cauko opened fire on home from outside the area after being founded by Colaco without an Northeast American shirt covering Finland International.
Suhair tried to double his lead but shot before Pritam Kotal drilled a wide header from the corner.
Just before halftime, the Mariners took the tin riding a Collaco attack to make him the seventh goal of this season.
Kauko changed the provider this time, putting the ball up to Colaco after running sharply for the last to slam the ball to the lower right corner.
ATKMB moved the fixture in the second period, Manvir found the back of the net in the 52nd minute after the outstanding colaco grabbed ownership to send Manvir clearly when the latter cut back to Subhashish and slot.
Head coach Juan Ferrando also replaced the Prabir Das with Sandesh Jingan with half the time, the star defender played for the first time this season since returning from Croatia Club HNK Šibenik.
NEUFC created a number of opportunities after falling behind with Imran Khan, Hernan Santana and Marco Sayanek approached scoring.
In the end, a green and maroon shirt was held in their instructions and made him two wins in two matches to mobilize their authority.