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Sports Reporter
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Awudu Ibrahim took giants Abahani to the quarterfinals of the Citycell Federation Cup with a 2-0 win over Chittagong Abahani Limited in a Group C encounter at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
Nine-man Muktijoddha Sangsad handed a 1-0 defeat to Bangladesh Police to keep their hopes of qualifying for the last eight, thanks to a first-half strike from Saifur Rahman Moni.
The second consecutive victory put Abahani on top of Group C with maximum six points. They are two points ahead of Muktijoddha Sangsad, who now need a draw against Dhaka Abahani on Monday to see them in the knockout phase as Chittagong Abahani are on one point and have a match in hand against winless Bangladesh Police.
After having recorded an unimpressive 1-0 win over Bangladesh Police in their first appearance, Abahani coach Amalesh Sen brought three changes in his starting eleven with striker Robin replacing Enamul Haq and Arif Khan Joy taking the position of midfielder Zahed Parvez Chowdhury while right-back Obidur Rahman was replaced by Atiqur
Rahman Mishu.
The changes made a huge pressure on the territory of the port city outfit in the first 15 minutes though there was no fruitful attack and the Dhanmondi-based, Abahani, gradually lost the procession of the midfield and Chittagong Abahani went into the attack with Nigerian midfielder Nech Francis hitting the crossbar.
Then Mithun Chowdhury being set up by the Nigerian recruit, failed to beat Abahani goalkeeper Biplob Bhattacharya in a one-on-one situation.
After surviving from two close calls, coach Amalesh then sent Zahed Parvez in place of Motiur Munna and Abahani again started to regain the midfield.
Mehdi Hasan Ujjal came close to opening the score four minutes from time when he got Chittagong goalkeeper Khaled Azam into better position before lashing a shot lamely to squander an easy sitter.
After resumption, debutant Shahedul Alam replaced Arif Khan Joy and Abahani took full control of the midfield and went ahead 12 minutes into the second half when Robin was presented a free ball from Ibrahim and the former Mohammedan striker tapped the ball home from close to celebrate his Abahani debut.
Chittagong Abahani, however, once again rattled the crossbar of their mighty opponents when a powerful header from Hadiuzzaman off a Mithun corner came off the bar.
Robin and Shahedul then came close to doubling the lead inside three minutes before Ibrahim sealed the fate of the match five minutes from time as the Ghanaian striker surrounding three defenders inside the danger box cleverly sent the ball to the far post.
In the first match of the day, Golam Sarwar Tipu's Muktijoddha Sangsad were reduced to nine men but still rode on the 29-minute goal from Saifur Rahman Moni to secure a narrow win over Bangladesh Police.
Moni however was sent off in the 69th minute following his misbehaviour with referee Moinul Islam.
Moni got involved in heated exchanges with Moinul after the referee cautioned Ashraf Hossain instead
of Arup Kumar Baiddya, who was supposed to be booked for his foul. Ashraf then tackled a Policeman roughly soon after resumption and referee gave him marching order for the second bookable offence.
TEAMS
ABAHANI: Biplob, Obaidur. Samad Youssif, Rajani Kanta Barman (M Sujan). Jahangir Alam Mintu, Motiur Rahman Munn a (Zahed Parvez), Pranotosh Kumar, Arif Khan Joy (Shahedul), Mehdi Hasan Ujjal. M Robin and Awudu Ibrahim.
CTG ABAHANI: Saidul Haque Sayed (Suman Barua), Jahangir Alam, Zamir Uddin, Shahidur Rahman, Khaled M Azam Biplob, M Tarek. Masud Alam. Shakhawat Hossain, SM Hadiuzzaman, Nech Francis (Mozammel Haque) and Mithun Chowdhury.
Yellow cards: Pranotosh and Ibrahim (Dhaka Abahani).
Referee: Azad Rahman.