Match Review:
United SC after their drawn match against city rivals Mohammedan SC looked to get back to their winning ways as they played their home match match against a strong Salgaocar SC at Kalyani stadium.Coach Elcho Schattori's had odds stacked against him as Belo Rassaq was out with a Red Card,Lalkamal still nursing an ankle injury.Coach Elcho Schattorie who is known for his tactical game reading did not have enough resources st his disposal to tackle a strong Salgaocar team.Gasping for resources Elcho did his best to put a starting XI that could atleast challenge Salgaocar. Veteran defender Dipak Mondal returned to play as central defender after long time along side Anupam Sarkar and Dhanachandra and Sukhen Dey played as side backs. Asif K. and Shouvik were in charge of the mdfield while Snehasish and Rafiq started in charge of both flanks,Ranty played as final striker with Eric Brown playing behind hi to link midfielders to Ranty.Rafiq still not fit to play 90' featured as U-23 player was soon replaced by Vinneeth CK.
United SC got to the worst possible start as they conceded the first goal as early as 3' as Augustine Fernandes turned in a loose ball from corner to make it 1-0.Salgaocar SC threatened to score more as they played good positive football using both the wings especiallly Karma Tsewang was impressive down the right wing.The midfield trio of Frances Fernandes-Rocus Lamare-Gilbert Olivera dominated possession in midfield and played impressive football.
As United missed someone influential in the midfield like Lalkamal,winger half CK Vineeth tried some darting runs to get into opponent box but could not create any chances to score as Ranty Martins was stiffled with some close double covering from Chika Wali and Augusten.Eric Brown tried to create a few openings but he tried a way too much fancy footwork and often dispossessed in the final third as Ranty Martins was starved of any ball suply either from wings or midfield. Dhanachandra had some good balls to deliver from the left wing into the box but he had a forgettable day as his crosses lacked any quality whatsoever .
As Darrel Duffey looked dangerous on the break and supply coming from both wings United was caught off guard many a times on quick counter attack with Sangram Mukherjee made some good saves on one-on-one situation to deny Salgaocar further lead.
United tried to pick a few attacks far and few in between mostly from combination play from Eric-Vineeth and Ranty.Eric Brown scored a goal with a powerful 35 yard low drive just outside box only to be flagged off offside by linesman.It seemed a clear goal but some poor referring proved to be the Nemesis of United SC once again.
Elcho played all his cards in second half bringing in Tapan Maity and Surajit Bose but failed to open the goalmouth as Chika Wali led defence was rock solid to deny United attacking duo of Ranty and Eric any space to take a shot to goal.United had a few setpiece and seven corners in the match but failed to make them count as well.
In the second half,Salgaocar Coach brought on his third foreigner Claude Gnakpa to support Duffey and it created more spaces in United SC As they pushed forward for an equalizer.Finally Salgaocar sealed off the game in 86' as substitute Milagres(8) scored a good goal on counter attack move to prove the encounter beyond contention.Derek Perereira achieved 3 points with a compact defensive game and a counter attack based game with lone striker Duffey upfront.
Coach Elcho would be mightily dissapointed with all the things that combing to United SC loss be it players out due to injury,cards or poor referring.But as a shrewd tactician he will be looking forward for the return of Belo and Lalkamal to get their campaign back to winning ways in their upcoming games.
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