Brothers, Rahmatganj play out a 2-2 draw
Mannaf Rabbi converted a stoppage-time spot-kick to help Brothers Union to a 2-2 draw against Rahmatganj MFS in their Bangladesh Premier League encounter at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday.
The outcome left both Rahmatganj MFS and Brothers in their previous 10th and 11th positions respectively with 20 and 19 points from 22 outings. Both teams are still in threat of being relegated from top-flight football, with 12th-placed NoFeL SC breathing on their neck with 16 points from 22 matches. All three teams have still two matches in hand.
Gambian midfielder Landing Darboe put Rahmatganj ahead in the 21st minute with a diagonal shot from the right-hand of the box before Sudanese forward James Moga levelled the margin for Brothers Union with a grounder in the 47th minute.
Both teams seemed happy to earn a draw from the match as there was lack of urgency from both sides even though Rahmatganj were denied twice by the woodwork. Then it was Darboe again who tapped in to restore Rahmatganj’s lead in the 88th minute after Brothers had turned into 10-man team in 72 minutes following the sending off of Park Jaehyeong for an off-the-ball incident with Faisal Ahmed of Rahmatganj.
Brothers, though, scored the equaliser in the stoppage time with Rabbi converting the penalty.
Saif compound NoFeL’s misery
At the Shaheed Bulu Stadium in Noakhali, Saif SC handed a 3-0 defeat to hosts NoFeL SC to put the hosts into deep into relegataion zone.
Smarting from a 4-1 defeat against Abahani in their previous match, Saif SC came heavily on NoFeL SC to take the lead in the fifth minute when Colombian Deiner Cordoba scored his 12th goal of the campaign.
Faisal Ahmed Fahim doubled Saif SC’s lead in the 47th minute while Uzbek forward Otabek Zokirov ensured the team’s victory with his fourth goal in the league in the 67th minute.
With their 13th win in 22 matches, Saif SC raised their tally to 44 points in fourth position. NoFeL SC, on the other hand, remained second from bottom with 16 points from 22 matches.
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