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Yusa helps Chennai City edge past Indian Arrows
Katsumi Yusa’s goal early in the second half helped Chennai City FC beat Indian Arrows 1-0 in an I-League clash on Wednesday in Coimbatore.
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Chennai City manager Akbar Nawaz made four changes to the line-up that lost to Mohun Bagan in its previous match. Rohit Mirza, Vijay N, Shem Marton Eugene and Jockson Dhas replaced Charles Lourdusamy, Jishnu Balakrishnan, Roberto Eslava and Ajith Kumar.
Venkatesh, on the other hand, made just one change in Indian Arrows starting XI which created a major upset in its last match against East Bengal. Harpreet Singh replaced Bikash Yumnam.
It was end to end football right from the beginning of the match but neither side could make an impact in the final third. The only major chance of the first half came to Fito Miranda in the 44th minute when he found himself at a handshaking distance to score.
Katsumi Yusa snatched away the ball from Harpreet’s feet inside the box and square the ball to Fito but the Spanish striker failed to even touch the ball.
The host, though, finally salvaged the lead within four minutes of the second half kick-off. Jockson Dhas sent a long ball inside the box from which Katsumi attempted a header. The ball had initially hit the crossbar but the Japanese did not make a mistake in converting the header from the rebound.
Arrows commanded proceedings after conceding the opening goal and looked more dangerous in the attacking third. It came close to equalise twice but failed.
In the 64th minute, Ayush Adhikari had sent a long ball over the last man Mashoor Shereef and it fell to skipper Vikram Pratap Singh. Singh tried to lob the ball over Nauzet Santana who came off his line but the ball went over the crossbar.
Then again in the 75th minute, Rohit Danu had an empty net in front of him from Vikram Pratap’s square inside the box but the young striker failed to push the ball into the net. With this win, Chennai City moved to eighth position on the league table.
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