Kochi
Kerala Blasters’ hopes of ending its marketing campaign on excessive got here to nought because it suffered a morale-shattering 1-0 defeat to Hyderabad FC on the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium right here on Sunday.
It was a brand new look Kerala Blasters aspect that took on Hyderabad FC as coach Ivan Vukomanovic made 5 adjustments. But it didn’t work for the Kochi aspect because it placed on an insipid present in entrance of one other sturdy gathering.
Hyderabad, which additionally made six adjustments within the beginning line-up, confirmed extra cohesion and was sharper in its ahead press.
The Kerala Blasters purpose had an early scare within the eleventh minute when Joel Chianese hit the put up with a left-footer. But simply earlier than the half-an-hour mark, Borja Herrera put Hyderabad forward by way of a wonderfully crafted workforce purpose. Mohammed Yasir dispossessed Jessel Carneiro and moved as much as relay the ball to Halicharan Nazary on the left flank. Nazary rolled the ball again from contained in the field to advancing Herrera, who put the ball into the far put up.
In the thirty fourth minute, one other flowing transfer from Hyderabad cut up the Blasters’ defence and Chianese discovered the again of the web just for referee R. Venkatesh to disallow the purpose for off-side. The linesman’s flag had stayed down when Chianese acquired the go from Yasir.
Vukomanovic made three adjustments within the second half, nevertheless it did little to carry the Kerala Blasters aspect. The Hyderabad defence saved its form as Blasters struggled to create clear probabilities. The guests performed proportion soccer to snuff out the house aspect’s problem to keep up its spectacular away document intact.
The end result
Hyderabad FC 1 (Borja Herrera 29’) bt Kerala Blasters 0.
