Brothers move up
Haitian Augustine Walson struck a brilliant brace to power Brothers Union to a 2-0 win over Chittagong Abahani in the Manyavar Bangladesh Premier League encounter at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
The tall marksman unbelievably curved the ball from the dead-ball situations to bamboozle Chittagong Abahani goalkeeper Shohag Hossain and took Brothers to the joint second-position along with Mohammedan SC and Sheikh Russel KC with 20 points from 10 matches, just three points less than leaders Sheikh Jamal DC.
“I am used to scoring from such difficult angel and it is nothing new for me,” said Walson adding that he had struck 15 to 16 goals from freekick in his playing career.
Walson is the lone player who has been pulling Brothers Union single-handedly as the 27-year-old marksman had direct contribution in four wins out of six Brothers posted and had scored 11 goals out of 16 in 10 matches.
Amid scorching heat at the big bowl, both teams looked tired after thirty minutes into the game but both of them recharged following the cooling break and Brothers came close to taking a lead in the 33rd minute but Walson saw his back-heel on a corner kick saved from the goalline by Kaushik Barua.
After resumption, Brothers who were playing without their Indian coach Syed Naeemuddin looked different and launched a wave of attack with Walson rattling the post on the edge of the box in the 65th minute.
Soon he made amends to put Brothers ahead in the 69th minute with a curling free kick taken deep from the left flank and doubled the lead in same fashion after curving another free kick in the 83th minute to raise his goal tally to 11, four goals ahead of second-best scorer of Muktijoddha Snagsad's Enamul Haque.
With Brothers creating more chances, Walson wasted three chances to miss his second hattrick of the ongoing league.
First Chittagong goalkeeper Shohag Hossain denied Walson in a one-on-one situation while Pradip Barua and Saiful Islam Khokon made goalline saves.
Chittagong Abahani stayed just ahead of bottom-placed Farashganj SC with five points from 10 matches.
The day's second match between Farashganj and Muktijoddha was stopped after 40 minutes due to thunderstorm. The match was postponed and will resume today from the 41st minute with the scoreline 0-0.
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