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Sports Reporter
Ten-man Mohammedan handed a 3-0 defeat to visiting Chittagong Abahani to maintain their winning streak in the Bangladesh League at the Birshreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur yesterday.
Defender Mofazzal Hossain Saikat and striker Alamu Bukola Olaleken struck one goal each before the Black and Whites were reduced to 10 men after 25 minutes. However, forward Zahid Hasan Emily sealed the fate of the match striking six minutes into the second half to take Mohammedan to the top with leaders Abahani, who also kept their hundred percent winning record with five wins in five. Chittagong Abahani, on the other hand, stuck to their previous five points playing as many matches.
Back to the match, Mohammedan, who toiled hard in their previous match's 2-1 win over Arambagh dominated the match from the beginning and took only 10 minutes to open the account when defender Saikat found his season's first goal with a well-judged header off a Abdul Baten Komol corner to put the Black and Whites ahead.
Ten minutes later Nigerian striker
Bukola doubled the margin with his league's first goal. Picking up a through pass from Emily, right-back Nasir advanced into the right side box to cut it for Bukola, who just placed the ball home on the edge of the eight-yard box to celebrate his first goal in the professional football league after the marksman had top-scored in the Federation Cup with eight goals.
Soon Mohammedan had to face a blow to be reduced to 10 men as referee Azad Rahman did not hesitate to give Mohammedan's Nigerian medio Emeka Christian the marching order after he elbowed Abahani midfielder Shumon Baura in an off-ball situation.
Despite being reduced to 10 men, Mohammedan never looked on the back-foot in the game, even the Motijheel-based outfit had scored third in the game against Abahani, who appeared in no urgency to take advantage of the man short for the opponents.
Mohammedan shifted their formation to 4-4-1 from the previous 4-4-2 with Emily playing as a lone striker, who also came close to widening the margin in the 37th minute, but his soft touch off a Bukola minus narrowly missed the target.
After resumption, Chittagong Abahani pressed hard to reduce the margin and they tried their luck from distance, but
they could hardly muster a shot on target.
From a counter attack, Mohammedan got the third goal on 51 minutes when Bukola played Emily on the left side and the national striker shrugging off his marker Shohei ran across the danger zone to lash a grounder past goalkeeper Biplob to grab the top spot of the scorers' list in the league with five strikes from five outings.
After almost making the result safe with the 3-0, Mohammedan appeared in a relaxed mood despite which Chittagong Abahani could not pry open their backline which was marshalled by Wali, Arif, Saikat and Nasir.
They could hardly test Mohammedan's number two goalkeeper MN Shakil, who was given room in place of the fever-hit Aminul Haque.
The port city outfit might have thought themselves unlucky as a Masud Alam tap off a Mithun Chowdhury cross ratted the sidebar in the 71st minute with goalkeeper Shakil beaten.
After having missed the SAFF Championship, Mohammedan's Zahid Hasan took to the field for the last 10 minutes of the game when the speedy winger nearly struck the team's fourth goal in the dying minute, but his low drive from the right struck the sidebar to disap
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point a few hundreds spectators in Kamalapur.
TEAMS
MOHAMMEDAN: MN Shakil, Wali Faisal, Nasir, Ariful Islam, Saikat. Arman Aziz, Abdul Baton Komol (Mamunul Islam), Enamul Haq Sharif (Alamgir Kabir Rana), Emeka Christian. Alamu Bukola (Zahid Hossain), Zahid Hasan Emily.
CTG ABAKAN!: Khaled Azam Biplob, Jahangir. Zamiruddin. Shamol Ahmed Rony (M Tareq), Shahidur Rahman Shohei, Shumon Barua. Shakhawat Hossain Rony (Shyedul Haque Sayed). Yeakub Awudu Solaiman. Nche Francis. Mithun Chowdhury and Akinyele Peter (Masud Alam).
Yellow cards: Saikat (Mohammedan), Zamir, Shohei, Shumon (Abahani)
Red card: Emeka Christian (Mohammedan) Referee: Azad Rahman