ISL 2018-19: Five-star show against Mumbai City takes Goa to top of table
Substitute Miguel Fernandez scored two late goals while Goa stepped on the gas in the second half to obliterate Mumbai City 5-0
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FC Goa vs Mumbai City FC (Photo: indiansuperleague.com)
Full-time report: FC Goa took apart Mumbai City FC and scored five past them at the Fatorda Stadium to go top of the table in the ongoing Indian Super League fifth edition. They could have scored even more, what with two very legible penalty shouts from Ferran Corominas, who scored the solitary goal in the first half.
Goa didn't take much to get going and in the fourth minute, after defending a corner, the Goans were quick to take the attack to the opposition that saw Coro run into the box. As the Spaniard was looking to work an angle, Mumbai's Sauvik Chakrabarti came from behind to whack him down inside the box. The referee points to the spot immediately. Coro dispatched his penalty down the middle with a Panenka penalty kick with the goalkeeper diving to his left.
Throughout the first-half, Goa's best chances came when they broke at pace to counter-attack and the goal wasn't an exception either. Goa created multiple other chances with Jacki Chand one of the bright creative forces in that half.
Mumbai weren't without opportunities either with Lucian Goian getting at least three good chances to head the ball inside the net. The first such opportunity came in the 14th minute when Arnold put in a beautiful cross from the right of the box to the far post where Goian got at the end of it but failed to keep his header down.
Despite going a goal down, Mumbai were very much in the contest at halftime as they were creating chances after chances and were just failing to bury it inside the goal. There was hope, but it was soon to be snatched away.
In the 55th minute, Seriton did fantastically to stave off a couple defenders on the right and put in a cross inside the box for onrushing Jackichand who slotted the ball just fine to make it 2-0 for Goa.
Six minutes later, Edu Bedia scored one of the finest goals of this year's ISL when he got the ball outside the box, played a give and go with Coro, and, upon receiving it again took the shot first time with the outside of his boot and the ball flew into the back of the net.
Mumbai had two quick chances to score after that Goa goal. First, Arnold had a chance to cross into Sougou in front of the box but his cross was overhit and failed to find his man. A couple minutes later, Machado got the ball on the left wing with only the goalkeeper to beat, but he lost his calm and absolutely blasted the ball into the side-netting instead.
These mistakes by Mumbai came back to bite them again when in the 84th minute, Goa scored again. The punisher this time was the substitute Miguel Fernandez but the goal was made by Manvir and a shabby Mumbai defence. Manvir robbed Subhasish off the ball after pressuring him at the backline, ran through on goal and then laid it off for Miguel Fernandez to slot it home to make it 4-0.
More misery was to befall Mumbai as Goa got another goal in the 90th minute when a stunning floated ball inside the box found Fernandez all alone. He controlled the ball and blasted it past the goalkeeper to make it 5-0 for the night.
Mumbai would certainly rue the chances missed as they did create a few good chances but just couldn't find the back of the net.
The win sends Goa to the top of the table with seven points from three games and a whopping goal difference of seven. Mumbai, meanwhile, languish at the seventh spot with only four points to show from their four games this season. Jorge Costa must be feeling under all kinds of pressure. Before the game, he said his players were playing well but just couldn't finish. The very same problem plagued Mumbai in this game too. Costa has diagnosed the problem, now he needs to come up with a solution, and he doesn't have much time left to do that.
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Minute 90+2 -- Mumbai get a free-kick just outside the Goa box. Machado delivers a fine shot too but Nawaz does brilliantly to tip it over the bar.
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Minute 90 -- Four minutes of additional time
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Minute 90 (GOAL!!) -- A stunning ball inside the box finds Miguel Fernandez all alone. He controls the ball and blasts it past the goalkeeper to make it 5-0
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Minute 87 -- Bastos goes on a mazy run but takes on a player too many in front of the Goa box and is robbed off the possession
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Minute 83 (SUBSTITUTION FOR MUMBAI)-- Ravi Kumar comes in for goalkeeper Amrinder Singh
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Minute 84 (GOAL!!) -- Manvir robs Subhasish off the ball after pressuring him and runs through on goal and then lays it off for Miguel Fernandez who is absolutely free and curls his effort to the top right corner to make it 4-0
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Minute 82 (SUBSTITUTION FOR GOA) -- Coro makes way for Palanca
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Minute 81 -- Pena sends Coro down the left flank with a ball. Coro tries to flick it round the keeper but can't get enough power on it and it's cleared on the goalline by the Mumbai defence.
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Minute 80 -- Edu Bedia tries his luck again from outside the box but his first-time left-footed shot flies inches above the crossbar
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Minute 78 (SUBSTITUTION FOR GOA) -- Manvir coming on for Jackichand
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Minute 75 -- Subhasish catches Coro's right foot and he goes down inside the box but the referee turns down the appeal for penalty
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Minute 74 (YELLOW CARD) -- Nawaz goes into the box for time-wasting
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Minute 72 -- Coro uses his quick feet to move inwards with the ball, looking for an opening to slot home his shot, but when he does it's blocked
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Minute 68 -- (SUBSTITUTION FOR GOA) -- Boumous out for Pena
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Minute 67 -- Sougou does well to get behind a floated cross inside the box and heads the ball downwards which the goalkeeper saves. It's flagged offside, incorrectly though.
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First Published: Oct 24 2018 | 6:26 PM IST
