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Chennai City FC host East Bengal at the JL Nehru Stadium on Sunday before the 2017 I-League pauses for the international break. The match will commence at 7:05 pm IST on 12 March. The match will be telecasted on TEN 2 and online viewers can catch the match on tensports.com.
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A decade after the I-League was launched, Chennai finally had a club in the National league — Chennai City FC. However, the first season has been a baptism by fire for the club. City, currently ninth in the standings has had a tough time both on and off the field, and will now have to face East Bengal in its final home match on Sunday.
Also, City coach V. Soundararajan admitted Bengal would be a tough opponent to tackle, and that the team would try and take inspiration from the draw against Bengaluru.
On the other hand, stunned in their last game, title contenders Kingfisher East Bengal cannot afford to drop points when they lock horns against new entrants Chennai City FC in a 14th round Hero I-League match. They are currently second on the standings, two points behind Aizawl FC.
The last time these two sides met, East Bengal demolished Chennai at the Barasat Stadium 3-0. A similar result could be expected from the visitors this time but Trevor Morgan’s side’s knack of choking up against minnows could return to haunt them once again.
Predicted Lineups:
Chennai City: Karanjit, Ravanan, Echezona, Debabrata, Yumnam, Raj, Zakeer, Ganesh, Nandha, Raegan, Charles.
East Bengal: Rehenesh, Arnab, Bukenya, Bheke, Narayan, Mehtab, Poojary, Rowllin, Plaza, Payne, Robin
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