ISL. The stadium is in YELLOW | Ivan’s night as Kerala Blasters’ party returns to Kochi.
Kerala Blasters won the match by 3 to 1 over East Bengal FC in the opening match of the Indian Super League (ISL) 2022-23 season at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, here on Friday. Adrian Luna's opener and Ivan Kaliuzhnyi's placed their studding performance in the second half that helped in to secure a 3-1 win for the Blasters. On the other hand, Alex Lima placed one goal. Both teams had opportunities to break the deadlock in the first half. In the seventh minute, Lima cut onto his left foot and attempted take a goal into the bottom left corner. Gill was at full stretch to palm the Braziaian's shot behind for a corner. Three minutes later, at the other end, Apostolos Giannou found himself at the end of a sublime cross from Jessel Carneiro. However, the Australian could not keep his shot on target.
Coming in as a 79th minute substitute, replacing forward Apostolos, Ivan Kaliuzhnyi entered to make his mark and make a dream debut. Minutes after arriving, the 24-year-old, who had come on loan from FK Oleksandriya two months ago, made a quick run from the centre, dodged past a couple of defenders and cooly sent the ball in. Everything was over in a jiffy and Ivan made it look all so easy.
In the 42nd moment, Luna tried Kamaljit Singh with a freekick. The ball skipped clumsily directly before Kamaljit, who figured out how to repel it behind the objective and just surrendered a corner. The Blasters kicked it up a score in the last part. Five minutes in, Giannou was denied after his redirected strike was splendidly saved by Kamaljit. The East Bengal FC shot-plug was grinding away again only three minutes after the fact as he obstructed Luna's short proximity exertion at his close to post.
The halt was broken in the 72nd moment when Harmanjot Khabra tracked down Luna in the crate with a wonderful long ball from his own half. The Uruguayan figured out how to get his foot on it to sneak it past the goalkeeper, giving his side a pivotal lead. A short ways from full-time, The Blasters multiplied their benefit. Ivan Kaliuzhnyi, who supplanted Giannou in the 79th moment, proceeded to score his presentation objective just in the wake of coming on. The Ukrainian made a run at the East Bengal FC protection from his own half before tranquilly opening the ball into the net.
Before that objective, East Bengal FC had gotten on the scoresheet in the 88th moment, kindness of a staggering volley from Alex Lima who was left plain inside the container. Yet, a moment later, Kaliuzhnyi multiplied his count and reestablished the Blasters' two-objective benefit with a splendid left-footed volley from 25 yards out.
The Blasters will have one more group from Kolkata in their next apparatus when they face ATK Mohun Bagan on October 16. The Red and Gold Detachment will return to home base for their next game against FC Goa at the Salt Lake Arena on October 12.
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