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MSC’s Rahimov reaps rich

Sports Reporter
Abdou Rahimov,
Russian striker, gpvc a superb dis play of marksm a nah Io to aeon
hts *itnd hattrtck In a row and iK fourth of the m-aaon. no hi* team bore down Federation Cuj champions Brother* Union 3-0 tn an Important match of the First Division football k-ague at the Mirpur Stadium yesterday
For Mohammedans, last year's runners-up tt was a remarkable day as after hectic parley between Sports Mints ter Sadeq Hossain and the chief patron of the club Tex tiles Minister Adbul Mannun. they finally agreed to take part tn yesterday's mutch which they had earlier wished to boy coll with a late night doclaru Hon citing security reasons. And they certainly hud no re grets as the high voltage off the field drama was finally rounded off with the election of the club supremo Akmal Hossain as the new General Secretary of the reshufiled Bangladesh Football Fedcra lion.
Could the black-whites help not playing? They could not. and they should have not. a fact that Is borne out by the ul Umalr result.
Yesterday's match. however, was not a one-way traffic by any stretch of the Imagination, al least not the proceedings one witnessed in a keenly con tested first half. In fact, Il was the Gopibagh team, in their tradinonal orange, who threat
ened to take a lead any moment. Satyajit Das Rupu. Khan dakar Waseem Iqbal and young Ripon outpaced and outmaneu vered Mohammedan defenders with consummate ease and gave the spectators an Impression that they had more stakes in the result of the match than rivals their tn black and white.
Brothers, who had earlier collected 25 points from 16 matches, drew the first blood in the sixth minute when their left-back Parvez look a sudden shot, from a defence lapse, but fortunately for Kanan, the Mohammedan custodian, the shot was directed towards the first post and he parried it away for a corner,
Mohammedans look sometime to get used to the furious pace Initiated by their opponents and got a scoring chance in the 13lh minute when Nablkov, the Russian medio, latched on to a fine ball from compatriot Boris Kuznetsov down the middle mid sco |icd over an advancing Ponlr. but the Brothers custodtui brought off a superb overhead reflex save to keep his side afloat.
Two minutes later Ahmed had the ball landed from an other Mohammedan defence mis up but again hl* weak header was nl the first post and Kanan Just had ui stand on It* way to keep his side from the harm's way
Ahmed again sent a thread of cold sweat down the spine of the Mohammedan support-
ers when he outpaced his murker to slip in a dangerous cross which was badly miscued Ay Mohammedan stopper Jewel but Ripon, perhaps shocked by the bad mess up of his senior rival player, failed to control the cross and the best chance of the dav was wasted
by Brothers Union.
Jewel. however. made amends a few minutes later when he foiled a menacing cross by Rupu from the right and Mohammedans got their desired lead from the following counter attack.
Kuznetsov, who was rather unjustly taken off by his coach Kaikobad. an action which prompted an enraged exit of the Russian player from the field with his\illy. pushed a delicate pass l Shabbir. ihe flcct-fooled winger ran a lew yards to 11ft a looping cross and Rahimov rose and headed the ball with all Ihe power he could muster from his neck to score a classical, goal in the 23rd minute which gave Ponlr no chance at all (1-0).
The goal was what Mo hammedans needed to break the neck of the Gopibagh side and with Rahimov running around like a liger that has smelt blood a Mohammedan victory was never in doubt. Shabbir changed hl* path, this time culling from the left, and sent a lunlallslng half cruas, half-shot that bounced out for u goulkkk. much to the relief of Ponlr
Mohammedan* came close to scoring In the 28th minute when first Kuznetsov and then Nablkov s goal bound header wus saved from the goalllnc by Rouf Babul and eleven minute* later Johnny crossed from the kft but Shabblr tried to guide It to the goal with hl* fool rather than the head,
Mohammedan* eonsoll daled the lead five minute* be fore Ihe short whislk when Rahimov, after having been freed by Tltu. look a fierce shot at goal which Ponlr half ^aved but the ball hung I.’ Ihe air loo long and Rihln*>v. unlike the local player*, followed It to finish II off in the nd (2 0).
The second half was a stark contrast in pattern a* Mo hammedans enjoyed unchallenged dominance and apart from the last goal and a 15 minute power failure at the fag end of the match nothing hap pened worth mentioning. Rahimov, who had the mortlfi cation of seeing one of hi* slwls return off the crossbar In the first half, took a thunder ous shot in the 26ih minute of I he second half which entered the net off Rouf Babul's leg (3-
Rahimov was. however, fully indebted to Shabbir for this goal because tt was the dapper little winger who cut in from
the right and wailed a few seconds with the ball to allow his teammate to arrive at tin proper position to unleash the cannonball.
Rahimov thus overlook Aba hani striker Sheikh Aslam as the highest goalscorer of this year's league. The Russian now has 13 goals to Aslam's 12.
Mohammedans now have 31 points from 17 games, two less than champions Abahanl. Each side has two more matches to play.
TEAMS
MOHAMMEDAN SC Kanan.
Shamim, K.iisar. Jewel. Puppu Kuznetsov (Naqulb), Johnny (Roxy). Tilu.-Nablkov. Shabbir and Rahimov.
BROTHERS UNION: Ponlr Pijush. Moon. Rouf Babul. Parvez. Iqbal. Manik. Rupu. Waseem. Ripon (Uttam. Ullas) and Ameer Khan (Ahmed).
Referee: SK Badruddin.