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BJMC hold Sheikh Russel

Sports Reporter
Title holders Sheikh Russel K C got another jolt in
the Bangladesh Premier League when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Team BJMC at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
Substitute Mohammad Robin cancelled a Samson Iliasu's 49-minute lead in the 73rd minute to rescue Sheikh Russel from blues and the second successive draw left last season's treble-winner sticking at the third position with 11 points from seven outings, five behind leaders Abahani.
A one minute silence was
observed due to the passing of commentator Nur Ahmed before the match kicked off.
However, the first draw in six matches lifted BJMC to the fifth position with seven points by virtue of goal difference as Mohammedan and Brothers have also equal seven points from six matches.
"I have given up the hope of retaining the league title because it is not possible to recover ten points we had dropped in only seven matches. I think we will now have to fight for the third or fourth place," said Sheikh Russel's dejected coach Maruful Haque after the match.
Maruful blamed his strikers for dropping points regularly.
"If you saw our matches, we did not play like dropping points but we did so because the forwards failed to perform, they even failed to cash in on early chances in every match and we have to accept the reality," said Maruful, who also found lack of motivation among the club officials this season.
Sheikh Russel's Moroccan striker Youness Roux failed to beat opponent goalkeeper Arifuzzaman Himel in one-on-one situation twice before the holders conceded a lead four minutes into the second half.
Nigerian midfielder Samson snatched the ball from the feet of defender Rezaul Karim and moved on the right side to latch a powerful
shot past Sheikh Jamal's goalkeeper Biplob Bhattacharjee, who however, made at least three good saves to keep his side in match.
Robin, who came in place of winger Shohei Rana, broke an offside trap to level the margin with a low right-footer, a goal the former Mohammedan striker scored after 15 months and frustrated Team BJMC, who shrugged off their 1-0 defeat to Abahani to put up a good show against the holders.
"We should have secured full three points but the luck did not favour us," said Team BJMC coach Ali Ashgar Nasir. "We could have been flooded with goals had the opponents get the chances we had created."