TC Sports Club defeat Abahani

Five-time Bangladesh Premier League champions Abahani made a frustrating start to the Sheikh Kamal International Club Cup as they suffered a 1-0 defeat at the hands of TC Sports Club at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong yesterday.

Ibrahim Mahudhee Hussain scored the decisive goal in the 16th minute to put Abahani in a precarious situation as they will now have to face strong opponents in the form of Kyrgyzstan’s FC Alga and South Korea’s Pocheon Citizen FC in their next two matches.

Earlier, in the opening match of the tournament, Pocheon Citizen FC got off to a fine start with a 2-0 win over FC Alga at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong on Saturday.

Pocheon Citizen, a third-tier club in South Korea, took the lead against heavily-favoured FC Alga with a long-range shot from Jang Young IK in the 14th minute before man-of-the-match JI Kyeong Deuk doubled the lead in the 20th minute from inside the box.

Pocheon made a few chances in the second half but they could not avail any of them while FC Alga, five-time league champions of the Kyrgyzstan Premier League, tried from distance but could not reduce the margin.