Hyderabad FC snatched a late point against FC Goa after Allan de Souza Miranda's injury-time equaliser in an Indian Super League match in which both teams were reduced to 10 men in Margao on Wednesday. (Match Highlights)
In a game of equal possession at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the Gaurs created several chances, taking five shots on target, and would have hoped for a finer finishing that could have pushed them to gain a stron🍎ger grip in the contest.
Miranda (90+1') scored 👍the late equaliser for Hyderabad after Armando Sadiku (52') put the home team ahe🐬ad.
Sadiku pulled off a cheeky effort off the back heel of his feet in the fifth minute to try and put FC Goa ahead following a corner kick.
Mohammad Yasir picked the ball on the right ꦑside of the box and thundered a shot that met Sadiku instead. The striker tried to make the most of the angle that he was stuck in, but the ball ricocheted off thꩲe post instead.
Sadiku was again in action in th🌺e 27th minute,ꦚ missing a glaring opportunity to strike the goal.
Brison Fernandes, coming into the game on the back of consecutive braces, brought down a long ball on the left flank that forced Hyderabad FC goalkeeper Arshdeep Singh to charge and close down the winger.
Brison squared the ball to Sadiku, who momentarily had an open net to aim at. Immediately, the Hyderabad FC defence ཧcollectively got together to block the fo💛rward's attempt and stay afloat in the proceedings.
Sadiku finally broke the deadlock with a goal that was a culmination of aღ sustained period of attack exerted by the FC Goa fro🐈ntline.
Theไy gradually pushed Hyderabad FC back, unlocking a sense of panic inside the box, and the eventual sequence came about with Boris Singh curling in a precise cross for Dejan Dra💮zic on the left post.
Drazic's header met some resistance from the Hyderabad FC defence, but Sadiku was placed perfectly i𒁏n very close range on the centre to hammer the ball on the top right corne♊r of the net.
The Gaurs were brought down to 10 men after Borja Herrera was shown a straight red card ♐in the 59th minute after an i𓄧ncident involving Hyderabad FC defender Alex Saji.
Incidental🌺ly, Saji was the next player to be sent off, in the 72nd minute. He picked up his second yellow card of the game following a foul on Sadiku away from the 18-yard box, taking the numerical advantage🎶 away from his side.
The Gaurs tried to capitalise upon that urgently, with Udanta Singh setting up a delivery for Aakash Sangwan, who was outside the 18-yard b🧔ox.
Sangwan unleashed a left-footed effort that missed♎ the target by a margin💙, opting against engaging in further build-up.
Isaac Vanmalsawma looked to salvage a point for Hyderabad FC, delivering a cross for Allan Paulista at the centre of the box in the 81st minute. Paulista’s headed effort was on target on 𒐪the right side, but was ably saved in time.
The duo, however, came in c𓄧lutch, in added time of t🔜he second half.
Hyderabad FC 🅘hadn't mustered many concrete chances in the game, but Issac's insistence on exploiting wider areas bore fruit when he sent in another cross for Paulista, which the latteꦍr slotted into the bottom left corner, hurrying the FC Goa defence and notching the all-important equaliser.
