East Bengal vs Bengaluru FC ISL Highlights: EBFC 2-1 BFC | Saul and Cleiton keep East Bengal's Playoff Dreams Alive

East Bengal vs Bengaluru FC - Full Time: EBFC 2-1 BFC

It's all over and East Bengal live for another day. A 2-1 victory on a Sunday evening in Kolkata over Bengaluru FC keeps their playoff dreams alive. Saul Crespo and Cleiton Silva, two of their prominent foreign stars with the goals and it is jubilant scenes at the Salt Lake Stadium. Bengaluru's chances for playoffs are almost done and dusted with this defeat. It is also East Bengal's first back to back wins in the ISL.

Souvik Chakrabarti meanwhile sees a Yellow and will miss the Punjab game. Saul Crespo has also gone in the referee's book.

Aman CK makes a superb run and misses a glorious chance. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu comes back to block his shot but the East Bengal player would have scored had he not slipped.

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90+6'Monirul Molla's cross takes a touch in the box and Prabhsukhan comes and gathers it with ease.

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90+4'Monirul Molla fouls Aleksandar Pantic in the box and gets a Yellow Card.

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90+2'Suresh Wangjam's floated cross finds Sunil's head but the Bengaluru captain is already offside.

8 minutes added on as stoppage time.

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Prabhsukhan Gill gets a Yellow Card. That means the EBFC keeper won't be available for their last game of the season.

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Veendorp finds Shivaldo, whose cross to Sunil Chhetri goes in vain as the BFC veteran fails to create any significant chance. It goes out for an East Bengal goal kick.

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88'Cleiton Silva and Naorem Mahesh are coming off for East Bengal. Lalchungnunga and Felicio Forbes are coming on.

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85'What a miss for Monirul Molla! He had a superb chance to score but only manages to hit Prabhsukhan and it goes for a corner.

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84'Nikhil Poojary's deflected cross finds Prabhsukhan. From the counterattack, Sayan sends in a cross but finds no East Bengal feet.

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82'Aman sends in a superb cross but Sayan fails to get his footing right and a huge chance goes begging for East Bengal.

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81'Nikhil Poojary cuts inside and finds Javi, whose lobbed ball is intercepted by Rakip.

Shivaldo's shot from a long distance goes comfortably wide. Prabhsukhan just lets it go

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80'Ten minutes to go. East Bengal will be desperate to hold on to this lead.

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78'The match resumes after the hydration break. Javi Hernandez sends in the ball but Maher heads it out.

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76'We head to a hydration break and we can expect a pulsating final 15 minutes plus stoppage time awaiting. The Yuba Bharati is buzzing in anticipation.

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75'Suresh finds Nikhil Poojary but Hijazi Maher clears the cross to safety for East Bengal.

Goaaaaaal!! Cleiton Silva gives East Bengal the lead. A superb cross from Nishu Kumar and Cleiton heads it in.

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70'Sayan has looked bright since coming on and he wins a corner. But the hosts fail to conjure up anything from the set piece.

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68'A long ball sent in towards Sayan Banerjee but the youngster fails to keep it in.

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Aman CK sees a Yellow for a poor foul on Veendorp.

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Harmanjot Khabra is taken off and Aman CK is on for East Bengal.

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63'Monirul Molla finds Sunil whose shot is blocked by Harmanjot. Javi Hernandez takes a shot but it goes wide.

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Goaaaal!! Sunil Chhetri scores from the spot and we are back in level terms.

Penalty for BFC

Penalty awarded to Bengaluru FC for a handball. It hit Harmanjot Khabra from close range and the penalty is awarded.

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57'Nishu Kumar is brandished a Yellow Card for his altercation with Shankar.

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Victor Vazquez is taken off and Aleksandar Pantic comes on. It looks like Harmanjot Khabra will move to midfield.

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54'Victor Vazquez takes a short corner. Sayan tangles with Suresh but the Bengaluru player wins the duel and a free kick.