Mohammedan Sporting Club made a wonderful comeback when they overturned a 0-1 deficit courtesy of a hat-trick from SouleymaneDiabate to thrash MuktijoddhaKriraSangsadKrira Chakra by 6-1 in the Bangladesh Premier League football.
Held at the Sheikh FazlulHaque Moni Stadium, Gopalganj, Muktijodha took the lead in the very eighth minute but Mohammedan bounced back strongly with leveling the margin on 22nd minute and made the first half margin 3-1, and added three more goals after the break to finish it on 6-1.
Mohammedan, one of the giants in the domestic football, who have been going through tough times for a long, this season also they are not even among top four of the points table when first phase of the league has already ended. After this win they just lift the position to fifth from sixth with making the points tally 15 from 11 matches.
Muktijoddha, once league champions and one of the dominating teams are still under relegation threat when they managed only 10 points after 11 rounds.
However, on the day Atiquzzaman stunned the favourites with striking in the very eighth minute to lead Muktijoddhah (1-0).
But the Black and White took only 13 minutes to make strong bounce back and displayed a memorable game in this season with leveling the margin on 22nd minute when SouleymaneDiabate opened his account (1-1).
Souleymane doubled the margin for Mohammedan and struck his second on 35th minute when Muzaffarov converted a spot kick on 42nd minute to go at half-time with 3-1 lead.
The second half was nothing but a spectacular demonstration from Mohammedan who completed the one-sided game with a big win.
Boys of Shafiqul Islam Manik, who took 20 minutes time to make a high tempo start to the contest, their approach reaped rewards when Diabate completed his hat-trick on 53rd minute (4-2).
Sunday, the Nigerian forward, who played for rivals Abahani Limited for five seasons and joined the Mohammedan’s this season made the tally 5-1 on 69th minute.
Sazzad closed the sheet on 84th minute with scoring sixth goal to down Miukitijoddhah by half a dozen goals.
In the day’s other match, Sheikh Russel Krira Chakra defeated Bangladesh police FC by 3-1.
Sheik Russel came back from a goal down to win the match against Police, who were in the third position of the points table.
Colombian forward Johan ArangoAmbuila led Police on 37th minute and Russel scored all three goal in the second half with Ibrahim struck a couple of goals and NihatJaman added one.
Mohammed Ibrahim scored the equalizer right on 50th minute and NihatJaman increased the margin on 82nd minute.
