In today's match, Mariners had only 2 players from their first team, Chiddi and Dipak Mandal. Credit goes to coach Karim Bencharifa who has kept all the players of the squad in shape. We have seen that even between I league matches he had arranged practice matches so that the players who are not playing gets match practice. This reaped rich rewards as Mariners completely dominated the game. Such was the pressure from Mohun Bagan that Goalkeeper Sangram did not have to make a single save in the 90 minutes.

After match, Karim jokingly said, "Chiddi told me that he is keeping all the goals in his pocket for important matches." On a serious note, he said, "Chiddi is giving full effort, but somehow he is not being able to score. I sincerely hope he comes back to form soon." Of note, Chiddi has so far scored 7 goals in 11 matches this year which is not at all a bad record. Yes, he has missed at least 15 more chances in this 7 matches, but credit goes to him for always being there in correct scoring position where a striker should be.

In 2nd minute, both Chiddi and Suraj failed to push Subhojit's curling free kick inside goal. In 4th minute, Manish's header from Subhojit's free kick was saved by goalkeeper. In 10th minute, Chiddi nicely shielded the ball inside box, took a half turn but his rasping shot hit post. In 13th minute, Chiddi's shot was blocked by defender in front of goal. From corner, ball went straight to unmarked Karan, but unfortunately he could not even touch the ball.

In 2nd half, first 10 minutes saw Mariners miss chances galore. In 46th minute, Subhojit's well measured cross went straight to Manish, but he shot over the crossbar. In the next minute, Chiddi controlled the ball nicely, evaded his marker, but the bar again came to Kalighat's rescue when his shot hit cross bar and went out. In 49th minute, Chiddi-Subhojit combined well and the latter's cross found Chiddi in a scoring position, but he could not control his head and the ball went out. In 54th minute, Suraj's shot was saved by goalkeeper and the ball went to Manish who blasted the ball over bar.

Subhajit was again in the thick of action twice. First time, he got the ball from Branco and his well measured cross went straight to Suraj but his head went out. In the next movement, from his pass, Chiddi's shot was brilliantly saved by Kalighat goalkeeper.

In 81st minute, Kuluthungan came in place of Chiddi. Few minutes before end of match, Manish passed the ball to Kulu, who dodged past 1 player but with only goalkeper to beat, he pushed the ball out.