Mohammedan Sporting down Peerless, climb to top of table
Mohammedan Sporting Club moved to the top of the Calcutta Premier Division 'A' standings after recording a 2-0 victory over Peerless SC here on Monday.
Kareem Omolaja (60th minute) and Vanlalbiaa Chhangte (69th) were goal scorers for the winners after Jiten Murmu missed a penalty for Peerless.
Mohammaden now have 19 points from 10 matches to climb to the top of the table.
Mohammedan didn't get off the mark quite as quickly as they might have hoped with Peerless adopting a tactically strong approach, setting up a deep block with pace up front for counter-attacks.
Peerless' plan of attack was fairly straight-forward with a solid back-line, some man-marking and an aim to try and use the speed of Jiten to try and penetrate into the final third.
The plan seemed to work reasonably well as Peerless made several decent attacks. However, the Black Panthers were by far the more dominant side across the course of the first-half but poor finishing turned out to be their weakness.
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