Mohun Bagan has won the 125th Version of IFA Shield after a penalty shootout. Bagan win the tie breaker by 5-4.
Mohun Bagan started with a defensive strategy.
In the first minute EB tested Bagan defense from a move from the left. Bose cleared the ball.
In the 4th minute another EB attack saw a quick counter attack by Bagan and Anwar blocked Liston to foil the move.
In the 7th minute Bose was fouled.
Bagan got another opportunity in the 8th minute but Jamie shot was foiled by Gill.
In the 15th minute Bagan got another opportunity, but Sahal shot went wide.
Vishal foiled a Mahesh attempt in the 19th minute.
Apuia was fouled by Manesh in 21st minute but referee didn’t bother to book Mahesh.
Another opportunity was missed in 23rd minute by Alberto.
Another chance was missed in 25th minute.
Alberto handled the ball in 27th min inside EB box and another opportunity was wasted.
Bagan won a penalty as Anwar gouled Jamie inside the box after a brilliant through from Sahal went for Jamie. But then, Jason hit the ball above the crossbar.
Bagan conceded a goal in 36th minute – a Nahesh cross from left hit Tom, and deflected and Ahadad scored.
This was followed by two back to back opportunities by EB, and Bagan was lucky that the lead did not increase.
Apuia scored in added time. Sahal got into the box, placed gor Liston whose touch went to Apuia and Apuia’s powerful shot led to the equalizer.
Alberto was booked in 48th minute after a Mahesh play acting.
In 54th munute Anwar foiled another Bagan move
60′ saw Robson replacing Jason.
In 62nd minute Sahal was fouled outside box and Nunga got booked.
In 69th minute, Sahal was fouled and was bleeding. The coach brought this to referee’s attention and the referee booked the coach.
Another Bagan opportunity was foiled by EB defense in 74th minute.
82nd minute saw Deepak replacing Thapa.
At the dying moment a Mehtab header was saved by Gill. The referee , instead of giving a corner, whistled to end the regular time and the match went to extra time.
Manvir replaced injured Sahal at the beginning of extra time.
Robson got booked at the beginning of extra time.
95th min saw Mahesh stamping on Apuia, this was the second instance when referee was soft on Mahesh who might have got his second red card by that time.
At the dying moment of first half of extra time, Bagan missed another opportunityas Jamie was blocked.
Dimitri substituted Jamie in the beginning of second half of extra time.
For the next 15 minutes Bagan reigned over EB but failed to score. Match went to tie breaker.
Tie breaker saw the following
Miguel – Goal | Robson – Goal |
Sibille – Goal | Manvir – Goal |
Mahesh – Goal | Liston – Goal |
Jay – Saved | Dimitri – Goal |
Hiroshi – Goal | Mehtab – Goal |