ISL 2018-19: Alfaro misses penalty in Pune's 1-1 draw with Kerala

The draw takes Pune a slot ahead and they now sit at ninth spot with two points from five games while Kerala are in the fifth spot with seven points from five games

9:19 PM

Minute 92 -- Rakip gets into the Pune box on the right and fires his shot away from the far post he was apparently aiming

9:18 PM

Minute 90 -- Four mintes of additional time

9:15 PM

Minute 87 (YELLOW CARD) -- Alfaro is the latest player to be shown a yellow

9:13 PM

Minute 85 -- Pune's Marcelinho takes a shot from outside the box. The shot takes a deflection but the goalkeeper spots it and makes the save at the far post

9:11 PM

Minute 83 -- Marcelinho's free-kick from outside the box knicks off the wall and flies into the crowd

9:10 PM

Minute 82 (DOUBLE SUBSTITUTION FOR KERALA) -- Kali comes out for Pekuson; Samad makes way for Lalruatthara

9:07 PM

Minute 79 -- Stojanovic gets the ball on the left, gets inside the box and looks to curl one in at the far post but misses his target

9:05 PM

Minute 76 -- Pune go on a quick counter. Marcelinho plays a little one-two with Alfaro in front of the box then fires his shot that flies over the bar

9:03 PM

Minute 75 (YELLOW CARD) -- Pune's Alfaro goes on a mazy run in the middle of the park with his twists and turns but is eventually clipped down by Vineeth who is shown a yellow card

9:01 PM

Minute 72 -- (YELLOW CARD) -- Pune's Fanai booked

9:00 PM

Minute 72 (YELLOW CARD) -- Pune's Matt Mills is shown a yellow card for bundling down Poplatnik in front of the Pune box

8:56 PM

Minute 68 (SUBSTITUTION FOR KERALA) -- Doungel out, Narzary in

8:54 PM

Minute 66 -- Vineeth tries and go for an overhead kick to a half-clearance off a corner but he completely miscues it

8:52 PM

Minute 65 (SUBSTITUTION FOR PUNE) -- Ashique comes in for Robin

8:52 PM

Minute 61 (GOAL!!) -- Kerala score! Nikola Krcmarevic is the man! Kerala get a corner and it's half cleared and the ball falls to Krcmarevic nicely who squeezes the ball between Alfaro and the far post. 1-1 now.

8:52 PM

Minute 61 -- A poor clearance by Pune that bounces off a Pune player and could have easily flied to the back of the Pune goal

8:46 PM

Minute 57 (PENALTY!!) -- Penalty awarded to Pune after Alfaro is fouled inside the box. Alfaro is the one who takes it. He had missed a penalty earlier in the tournament. Alfaro powers his shot but smashes it at the crossbar

8:46 PM

Minute 56 -- Stankovic's corner is curling inside nad the goalkeeper has to tip it away to safety

8:46 PM

Minute 55 -- Alfaro is played a long ball with acres of space behind him as the Pune players are almost all in the Kerala half. He sprints to the box but his shot is awry. Waste.

8:42 PM

Minute 53 -- Poplatnik does brilliantly twists and turns to skip past two defenders to get from far left corner to inside the box where he looks to place a cross to the far post but the ball just flies across the face of the goal and past it

8:39 PM

Minute 51 -- A good ball down the left finds Doungel who fakes a shot before trying a Countinho-esque curl at the far post but the resulting shot is nowhere near the target

8:38 PM

Minute 50 -- Doungel goes low at the far post from the left inside the box but it's no straightforward for the goalkeeper

8:36 PM

Minute 49 -- Vineeth looks to drive inside the box, which he does with heavy touches and loses the ball for the very same reason

8:36 PM

Minute 48 -- Marcelinho props across from right and dirves a low shot directly at the goalkeeper

8:35 PM

Minute 47 (YELLOW CARD) -- Second booking of the game. Adil sees yellow

8:33 PM

Second half begins

8:27 PM

Half-time report: Pune City FC are leading 1-0 at half-time in their match against Kerala Blasters FC in front of home fans at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Stadium in Pune with a stunning strike by Marko Stankovic.

 

The Austrain got the ball outside the box on the left in the 13th minute, tried to go towards the centre before pulling the ball back and absolutely firing the ball with his left foot to the right top corner.

 

However, Stankovic's game was short-lived when he went out with an injury in the 26th minute and was promptly replaced.

 

Kerala kept stringing passes together and put in crosses after crosses to get the equaliser but the Pune defence stood resolute. Kerala did get through the Pune defence once, or so it appeared.

 

In the 41st minute, Kerala got a corner which was floated into the middle of the box. Amid the scramble, Krcmarevic got a touch on it but Kamaljit made the save and there was confusion over whether the ball crossed the ball. The referee initally awarded the goal before overturning his decision a couple minutes later.

 

To be fair To Kerala, the match was pretty much balacned apart from the magic moment by Stankovic which got his team forward and is the only goal in the first half.

8:18 PM

Minute 45+2 -- Pune get a corner but the inswinging cross is easily cleared. And that's half time

8:16 PM

Minute 45 -- Two minutes of additional time at the end of the first half

8:16 PM

Minute 45 -- Doungel goes for a curler from the right edge of the box but Kamaljit does well to punch it away