ATK Mohun Bagan made brief work of the Sri Lankan tremendous league winner Blue Star SC with a 5-0 verdict within the preliminary leg of the AFC Cup right here on the Salt Lake Stadium on Tuesday.
Finnish midfielder Joni Kauko and Manvir Singh shared 4 targets whereas David Williams discovered the online as soon as to grasp the comfy win for ATKMB.
The win noticed ATKMB sail in to the play-off stage the place it is going to meet the Bangladesh membership, Abahani Membership on the identical venue on April 19. The winner of that play-off will achieve a ticket to the group league stage.
Enjoying in entrance of a 25000 robust crowd for the primary time after the merger, ATK Mohun Bagan confronted a resolute Blue Star, which initially defended staunchly to maintain the house attackers from discovering the goal.
The ATKMB assault discovered its approach by means of within the twenty fourth minute when Kauko completed an help from Manvir with a strong grounder.
This began the aim fest as Manvir capped a high-quality solo effort to double the lead within the twenty ninth minute. Kauko added his second from a penalty within the thirty ninth minute after Blue Star defender Prince Boadu dealt with the ball contained in the field.
Mohun Bagan continued to carry sway after the break however needed to wait until the 77th minute to seek out the fourth aim, when Manvir arrange David Williams with a high-quality cross and the latter made no mistake with the faucet in.
Manvir rounded off the scoring within the 89th minute when he completed a high-quality by means of cross from the workforce’s French play-maker Hugo Boumous.
The consequence: ATK Mohun Bagan 5 (Joni Kauko 24, 39-pen, Manvir 29, 89, David Williams 77) bt Blue Star SC 0.
