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Mumbai City held to a goalless draw by FC Goa

FC Goa v Mumbai City FC

FC Goa v Mumbai City FC

Mumbai City FC travelled to Goa to take on bottom-placed FC Goa in a Hero Indian Super League (ISL) match at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Fatorda today.

The game turned out to be a lively end-to-end encounter with both sides having their moments in the attack. Mumbai City FC had the best chance of the first half as Singam Subash Singh tapped in the ball just to realise an offside position.

Both sides were locked goalless at half-time with both sides aiming to claim vital three points.

FC Goa came out of the half-time break strongly, but Mumbai City kept their box save and even missed a few chances to give themselves a lead.

Goa once again increased the pressure in the dying minutes of the game, but both sides had to settle for a 0-0 draw at the end.

2014 Hero Indian Super League
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Fatorda

FC GOA 0-0 MUMBAI CITY FC

GOALS
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LINE-UPS

FC Goa
1 Jan Šeda – 2 Debabrata Roy, 15 Grégory Arnolin, 5 Youness Bengelloun, 3 Narayan Das – 12 Bikramjit Singh – 19 Romeo Fernandes (64′ 14 Gabriel Fernandes), 16 Bruno Pinheiro, 7 Robert Pirès [C] (46′ 25 Ranti Martins Soleye), 17 Mandar Rao Desai – 26 Tolgay Ozbey (77′ 9 Miguel Herlein)

Unused Subs
13 Gurpreet Chabal, 21 Laxmikant Kattimani – 4 Rowilson Rodrigues, 8 Alwyn George, 11 Holicharan Narzary, 18 Zohib Islam Amiri, 22 Prabir Das, 24 Clifford Miranda

Mumbai City FC
1 Subrata Pal – 17 Deepak Kumar Mondal, 5 Manuel Friedrich [C], 27 Pavel Cmovs, 16 Peter Costa – 12 Singam Subash Singh, 2 Johan Letzelter, 6 Jan Stohanzl, 14 Nadong Bhutia (46′ 20 Lalrindika Ralte) – 21 André Francisco Moritz (45’+2′ 4 Tiago Ribeiro, 88′ 11 Javi Fernández) – 39 Nicolas Anelka

Unused Subs
31 Ishan Debnath, 41 André Preto – 3 Raju Eknath Gaikwad, 9 Abhishek Yadav, 18 Sushil Kumar Singh, 26 Ilias Pollalis

MATCH OFFICIALS

Referee

Assistant Referees
…, …

Fourth Official

BOOKINGS

Yellow Cards
24′ Narayan Das (FC Goa)
27′ Peter Costa (Mumbai City FC)
45’+5′ Youness Bengelloun (FC Goa)
66′ Bikramjit Singh (FC Goa)
74′ Jan Stohanzl (Mumbai City FC)

Yellow-Red Cards
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Red Cards
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MAN OF THE MATCH

Jan Stohanzl (Mumbai City FC)