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Kerala Blasters and Delhi Dynamos play out goalless draw

Kerala Blasters FC v Delhi Dynamos FC

Kerala Blasters FC v Delhi Dynamos FC

Kerala Blasters FC played host to Delhi Dynamos FC in their second Hero Indian Super League (ISL) game at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi on Sunday.

The match in front of an impressive crowd happened to be an entertaining one and it offered a lot for the spectators except some goals. Both sides showed some poor finishing and they were denied on various occassion by the two goalkeepers namely David James and Kristof Van Hout.

Kerala Blasters and Delhi Dynamos had to settle for a 0-0 draw as both teams splitted the points.

2014 Hero Indian Super League
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi

KERALA BLASTER FC 0-0 DELHI DYNAMOS FC

GOALS
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LINE-UPS

Kerala Blasters FC
70 David James – 5 Nirmal Chettri, 15 Sandesh Jhingan, 2 Cedric Hengbart, 29 Saumik Dey – 23 Avinabo Bag (59′ 88 Milagres Gonsalves), 18 Penn Ikechukwu Orji [C], 25 Stephen Pearson, 11 Ishfaq Ahmed (76′ 7 Sushanth Mathew) – 27 Andrew Barisic (76′ 9 Pedro Gusmao), 10 Iain Hume

Unused Subs
24 Sandip Nandy – 3 Jamie McAllister, 4 Ramandeep Singh, 12 CS Sabeeth, 21 Godwin Franco, 22 Raphaël Romey, 32 Colin Falvey, 44 Erwin Spitzner

Delhi Dynamos FC
1 Kristof Van Hout – 19 Robert Lalthlamuana (85′ 11 Francis Fernandes), 4 Wim Raymaekers, 5 Anwar Ali, 26 Shouvik Ghosh – 8 Adil Ahmed Khan (71′ 17 Manandeep Singh), 15 Bruno Herrero Arias, 6 Hans Mulder, 28 Shylo Malswamtulunga – 10 Alessandro Del Piero [C] (72′ 13 Pavel Eliáš) – 9 Mads Junker

Unused Subs
24 Marek Cech – 3 Stijn Houben, 7 Morten Skoubo, 14 Dinis, 16 Gustavo Dos Santos, 20 Souvik Chakraborty, 22 Naoba Singh, 23 Steven Benedic Dias

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee

Assistant Referees
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Fourth Official

BOOKINGS

Yellow Cards
37′ Alessandro Del Piero (Delhi Dynamos FC)
41′ Stephen Pearson (Kerala Blasters FC)
65′ Cedric Hengbart (Kerala Blasters FC)

Yellow-Red Cards
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Red Cards
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MAN OF THE MATCH

Stephen Pearson (Kerala Blasters FC)