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1-1 draw against Sk Russel

Sports Reporter
For a second successive match defending champions Mohammedan threw away an early lead to play out a 1-1 draw against Sheikh Russel KC in their final group match of the Grameenphone Super Cup at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
Man-of-the-match Touhidul Alam put Mohammedan ahead in the fifth minute before Bangura Ismael cancelled the lead one minute from the break to keep Russel's hope of qualification for the semifinals alive.
However, with two points from two matches, Mohammedan are in a better position to qualify for the last four and they will be through to the last four if there is an outright result in Group B's final match between Muktijoddha Sangsad and Sheikh Russel, both of whom have one point each from as many matches.
The only result that will see Mohammedan fail to qualify is a 3-3 or higher scoring draw, otherwise Mohammedan will be through and either of Sheikh Russel or Muktijoddha will fail.
If the match ends in a 2-2 draw, Muktijoddha will advance to the semfiminal as group champions and a toss will take place to decide the second team from among Mohammedan and Sheikh Russel.
Back to yesterday's match, which started with a minute's silence observed in memory of the deceased school children in Monday's truck accident in Chittagong, saw Mohammedan put up another spirited show like their tournament opener. In the end though they failed to preserve their lead and had to share the points.
The Black and Whites, boosted by the arrival of three hired players, comparatively dominated the match and took a fifth-minute lead from a free-kick when on-loan striker Touhid curved in a freekick from the edge of the box to find the back of the net. Sheikh Russel goalkeeper Mamun Khan managed to find a fingertip on the ball, but could not stop it from reaching the net.
Keeping Nigerian recruit Sunday Chizuba up front, Mohammedan mostly played through the right flank with Shariful Islam and Touhid releasing threatening crosses which hitman Sunday failed to cash in on in two occasions.
Sunday should have doubled the lead in the 27th minute but he slipped inside box with only the goalkeeper to beat and later he failed to connect to a Shariful cross from a close.
And the missed chances proved “^\v ita 1 asMohammedan conceded the equaliser in the 44th minute. The three defenders were to blame for the equaliser as Hasan Al Mamun, Vasani and Bayebeck failed to restrict Sheikh Russel's on-loan striker Bangura Ismael from finding a way past them and send the ball to the far post to level the margin.
After resumption, Sheikh Russel looked a bit more organsied and pressed hard for a lead and almost found it in the 59th minute when Mohammedan's Feni
defender Vasani nearly struck his own net attempting to clear a Monaem Khan Raju cross but the Black and Whites but the ball went narrowly wide of the bar.
Touhid, with his favourite left foot, came close to scoring his second in the 63rd minute when he advanced to the box from the midfield and let loose a grounder from the left-side which narrowly missed the target.
TEAMS
MOHAMMEDAN: Al Hasan, Hasan Al Mamun, Hamid Sheikh Vasani, Touhidul
Alam, Akteruzzaman Liton, Shariful Islam (Akbar Hossain Ridon), Tapu Barman, Uwiningiyimana Amani, Bayebeck Forbaghne, Nche Francis (Shafiqul Islam) and Sunday Chizoba.
SHEIKH RUSSEL: Mamun Khan, Aminul Islam, Prodip Borua, Jahangir Alam Mintu (Moshiul Kabir), Abass Inushah, Moro Mohammad, Mezbabul Haque Manik, Monaem Khan Raju, Mohammad Yousuf (Emon Babu), Bangura Ismael and Eduard Sakhnevich.
Referee: Hannan Miron.