ISL 2024-25: Mumbai City FC held to goalless stalemate against East Bengal at home

ISL 2024-25: Mumbai City FC held to goalless stalemate against East Bengal at home

Mumbai City FC were held to a goalless draw against the East Bengal FC at the Mumbai Football Arena in the Indian Super League (ISL) 2024-25 on Friday.

EBFC picked up pace earlier on in this encounter, as its entire frontline functioned in tandem to slice open the MCFC defence in the 14th minute. Dimitrios Diamantakos and Naorem Mahesh Singh forced Phurba Lachenpato to make saves.

Diamantakos was again in the centre of focus in the 44th minute, as he missed hitting the target from touchingly close distance facing the centre of the goal.

Vikram Partap Singh had a brilliant chance to break the deadlock four minutes into the second essay of the game. Mumbai City outnumbered the visitor in the attacking third and Bipin Singh brought down a cross from the left post for Vikram. The attacker couldn’t sort his feet though as he lost his balance, missing to hit the goal from merely a couple of yards away.

East Bengal FC, too, ended up striking wayward from such close distances. Mahesh failed to convert his darting run into a shot on target before Diamatankos again hit the woodwork.

Jorge Ortiz had come on for Thaer Krouma in the 63rd minute and he provided the Islanders arguably its two best opportunities to find the back of the net, but Gill came out on top in both occasions.

This was East Bengal FC’s 100th match in the ISL and it has now moved to 10th in table with 18 points from as many games. The Islanders, on the other hand, played their seventh draw of the season and are positioned sixth with 28 points from 18 matches.