Chennaiyin FC scored a 1-0 win over former champion Hyderabad FC of their ISL league match on the GMC Balayogi Stadium right here on Monday.
Conor Shields’ seventh minute objective for Chennaiyin meant that Hyderabad, enjoying its first residence recreation of the season, was but to get off the mark after three video games to be on the backside of the factors desk.
Hyderabad grew into the sport, created loads of probabilities, with the likes of Aaren D’Silva, Pennanen and Joe Knowles coming shut on a few events.
Mohammad Yasir was spectacular all through the sport whereas Joao Victor, Sahil Tavora, Nikhil Poojary and Vignesh Dakshinamurthy performed their position to maintain Chennaiyin underneath stress.
Oswaldo Alanis and Chinglensana Konsham had been strong on the again and hardly afforded the guests a sniff on objective earlier than pushing for an equaliser late within the recreation.
Gurmeet Singh stood tall when referred to as upon nevertheless it was a textbook smash and seize from Chennaiyin, who made 30 fouls, noticed six yellow playing cards, and scored from one in every of its solely two pictures on the right track on the evening.
Jonathan Moya got here on for his debut for the house crew with the likes of Felipe Amorim, Makan Chothe and Abdul Rabeeh did their bit however HFC failed to search out the again of the web and dropped all three factors on the evening.
The outcome: Hyderabad FC 0 misplaced to Chennaiyin FC 1 (Conor Shields 7).
Source web site: www.thehindu.com
