Mumbai City FC welcomed Delhi Dynamos FC in a Hero Indian Super League (ISL) encounter at the D.Y. Patil Stadium on Wednesday.

Mumbai City suffered an early setback as skipper Syed Rahim Nabi suffered an injury just one minute into the game. Head coach Peter Reid had no other option than to substitute Nabi and bring on Peter Costa.

Both sides tried their luck to open the score sheet with long range attempts, but most of the shots didn’t produce any danger to the respective goals. The game went into the half-time break with a goalless draw as both coaches knew the importance of the game and the need to claim three points from the encounter.

The home side took the lead in the 59th minute when former French international Nicolas Anelka scored his second goal of the season. Singam Subash Singh delivered a perfect ball into the box from the right side and Anelka had no difficulties to put the ball past Delhi Dynamos FC goalkeeper Kristof Van Hout.

Mumbai City failed to increase their lead through Anelka and Subash, while Alessandro Del Piero missed the a golden opportunity to score the equaliser for the visitors as the Italian somehow put a header wide from a close distance.

Wim Raymaekers had another chance for Delhi in the dying moments of the game, but his header was denied by a sensational save by Indian international goalkeeper Subrata Pal.

Mumbai City FC won the match 1-0 courtesy to another goal by Frenchman Nicolas Anelka.

2014 Hero Indian Super League
at D.Y. Patil Stadium, Mumbai

MUMBAI CITY FC 1-0 DELHI DYNAMOS FC

GOALS
1-0 Nicolas Anelka (59′)

LINE-UPS

Mumbai City FC
1 Subrata Pal – 17 Deepak Kumar Mondal, 27 Pavel Cmovs, 5 Manuel Friedrich, 19 Syed Rahim Nabi [C] (10′ 16 Peter Costa) – 12 Singam Subash Singh, 2 Johan Letzelter, 6 Jan Stohanzl, 20 Lalrindika Ralte (56′ 14 Nadong Bhutia) – 21 André Francisco Moritz – 39 Nicolas Anelka

Unused Subs
31 Ishan Debnath, 41 André Preto – 3 Raju Eknath Gaikwad, 4 Tiago Ribeiro, 7 Rohit Mirza, 11 Javi Fernández, 15 Asif Kottayil, 18 Sushil Kumar Singh, 26 Ilias Pollalis

Delhi Dynamos FC
1 Kristof Van Hout – 13 Pavel Eliáš, 5 Anwar Ali, 4 Wim Raymaekers, 26 Shouvik Ghosh – 23 Steven Benedic Dias, 15 Bruno Herrero Arias, 20 Souvik Chakraborty, 28 Shylo Malswamtulunga (62′ 11 Francis Fernandes) – 16 Gustavo Dos Santos (80′ 7 Morten Skoubo) – 9 Mads Junker [C] (61′ 10 Alessandro Del Piero)

Unused Subs
24 Marek Cech – 3 Stijn Houben, 8 Adil Ahmed Khan, 14 Dinis, 17 Manandeep Singh, 19 Robert Lalthlamuana, 34 Manish Bhargav

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee
Pranjal Banerjee (India)

Assistant Referees
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Fourth Official
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BOOKINGS

Yellow Cards
53′ André Francisco Moritz (Mumbai City FC)
55′ Bruno Herrero Arias (Delhi Dynamos FC)

Yellow-Red Cards
none

Red Cards
none

MAN OF THE MATCH

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