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East Bengal faced their city rival United SC after the Big Derby with Mohun Bagan.After the hype and drama of the Mohun Bagan derby East Bengal were faced with a battle within a battle to overcome the complacency to put in a solid performance against United SC club who have grown a reputation of creating upsets to it's bigger city rivals.East Bengal struggling with injuries to key players as Mehtab Hossian was sidelined along with James Moga.
Coach Armando Colaco kept the same back four as Uga and Arnab paired in the heart of defence and Soumik and Naoba played as side backs.Midfield was marshaled by Sueoka-Dika-Lobo-Mama and Khabra played as blocker. Sueoka played in a slight upfront role behind Chidi,who played as the lone striker.
On the other hand Coach Elcho Schattorie known for his tactical formations played with Anupam and Belo as central defence,Dhanachandra and Dipak Mondal as side backs.Hassan the Syrian defender was given a the role of a defensive screen between the back line and midfielders manly to counter the link up play of strong East Bengal attacking midfielders. Midfield was drafted with Tapan Maity as blocker,Vinneth down the middle behind Ranty,Snehasish down the left and Shouvik down the right.
As the match progressed East Bengal, looked to press forward as the midfield duo of Dika and Lobo combined well in occasions but Edeh Chidi was left without supporting striker and at times left to do more than enough in the strong closing down formation of the United midfielders.
The moment of the game game in 25' when Chidi was released from midfield for a brilliant through ball from Sueoka as the striker rounded off keeper Ishant Debanth was clearly tripped in the box by the davancing Goalkeeper but to the surprise of the entire stadium,Chidi was booked for diving and no penalty was given.
But it was soon that East Bengal got their goal on 31' when Soumik Dey attacking from the left flank found Chidi Edeh unmarked on the left side of the box whose powerful grounder beat the keeper and went through the net.
The first half ended without any further events as East Bengal had a few freekicks around the box but failed to convert them.
As the second half progressed United looked more of a transformed side as they took control of the midfield, Vinneth,Asif,Rafiq,Shouvik stringed numerous passes between themselves as they controlled the game and maintined very good shape,East Bengal was made to workl hard and fight for possession. Though Eric Brown's absence was felt since Ranty was not getting enough support around the box, still the midfield domination kept United in the game.Finally as they kept pressing forward they were rewarded with a goal from a corner around the hour mark as Dhanachandra Singh rose high and strong in the far post to head in a powerful goal to make 1-1.
As East Bengal kept losing the control of the match Armando was forced to change to 4-3-3 formation as he brought on Baljit and Semil Lane in the final quarter but United SC defence held strong especially Hassan and Belo showed good undertsanding and thwarted any threat from Chidi or Baljit.
The highlight of the game was surely the chances missed by East Bengal in the final 15 mins as the first chance fell to Suoeka who found himself with only keeper to beat with a qucik counter attack but surprisingly failed to hit the target as tried to aim for top net hit in high and wide and then came the miss that worth "2 points" for East Bengal. As the ball scrambled in United SC box Chidi's shot was blocked by his fellow striker Baljit Sahni and then Chidih just 6 yards out failed to put the ball in the net as his powerful aerial shot hit the cross piece and went out.
The match ended 1-1 with spoilt shared and East Bengal were left to rue their missed chances as they left 2 points from their home match at the crucial junction of I league after which they begin their away leg of I league playing 5away games.
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