ISL 2018-19: Late Vieira goal gives ATK all three points against Pune City

The win sends ATK to the sixth position in the points table with 10 points from seven games while Pune sit at the bottom of the table with two points from seven games

9:00 PM

Minute 71 (YELLOW CARD) -- Pune's Sahil is booked

8:58 PM

Minute 69 -- Lanzarote slides a pass down the right for Khongjee who looks to cross it into the box but is dispossessed

8:55 PM

Minute 67 -- Pune attack and Robin drives a low shot but it rolls nicely for the goalkeeper who dives nonetheless while making the save

8:53 PM

Minute 64 -- Vieira lets one fly from some distance but it flies over the bar too

8:52 PM

Minute 64 (SUBSTITUTION FOR PUNE) -- Sarthak out, Ashutosh in

8:51 PM

Minute 63 -- Santos tries to turn and shoot from just outside the box but can't keep his effort down

8:50 PM

Minute 61 -- Pune go on a counter. Robin Singh goes down the left wing and pulls it back for Pujari inside the box who strikes it first time but the goalkeeper makes the save

8:49 PM

Minute 60 -- Thatal again does on a bolting run down the right and tries to cut in into the box before Diaz makes a sliding challenge to put the ball out for corner

8:47 PM

Minute 58 -- Thatal makes a good run on the right and puts in a good ball into the box that finds the head of one of his teammates whose header is parried. Lanzarote then finds a stray ball inside the box and pulls the trigger but can't get past the first defender who makes the block

8:42 PM

Minute 53 (SUBSTITUTION FOR PUNE) -- Halder comes in for George

8:42 PM

Minute 52 -- What a chance for ATK! A delicate ball over the top of the Pune defence and Santos comes agonosingly close to heading to it with only the goalkeeper to beat who makes the save

8:39 PM

Minute 51 -- Nikhil is released down the left wing and has the opportunity to cross it into the centre but he takes the shot himself and skies it instead

8:37 PM

Minute 48 -- ATK begin where they left off and continue to attack the Pune box

8:34 PM

Second half begins

8:24 PM

Half-time report: The first half of ATK and FC Pune City at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata remained scoreless after the visitors held themselves to stave off the multiple attacks of the home team.

 

ATK continued to knock on Pune's door for all of the first half, many of those times through set-pieces too, but just couldn't get through the Pune defence. Lanzarote alone got at least four free-kicks but kept putting his free-kicks away from the target, apart from that one time when it rattled off the woodwork.

 

There haven't been any clear-cut chances for either team and neither have they been able to take advantage of the set-pieces they have received. If either team wants to get anything from this game, they ought to do much much better in the second half