That's it from my side. Congratulations to Atletico de Kolkata but respect for the Kerala Blasters and their fans, who tirelessly filled up the huge stadium in Kochi to create quite an atmosphere day in and day out. Football needs such fans.
And that's half time. What an exciting period of play it was. It was end to end stuff from both the teams as the goal keepers were kept busy under the bars
07:49 PM
44' GOOOOAAAAAL! Kolkata is right back in the game and it's Sereno, the defender, who equalises by a header from a corner
07:43 PM
37' GOOOOOOOOOAAAAL! Kerala have opened the account through a corner and the fans go ballistic. It's Mohammad Rafi who heads it into the net to give the lead to his team
07:40 PM
35' SAVED! Vineeth's on target shot from outside the box is easily saved by Debjit
07:39 PM
34' SAVED! Postiga is again on target but Stack blocks his shot again. What a contest going on between the two
33' Kerala Blasters' marquee player Aaron Hughes struggling with cramps and he has to go off.
14' Hume and Postiga play a marvellous one two and then the Portuguese just pulls his shot wide. That was delightful passing
07:16 PM
11' Kerala attack in numbers and the ball from left is cleared by ATK defence before it reaches any yellow shirt in the box
07:15 PM
9' BLOCKED! Rafi gets a delightful ball in the box from Belfort and just when the Indian tried to pull the trigger, his shot was blocked by Kolkata defence, not once but twice
07:12 PM
8' ATK players take the ball off Vineeth's feet and counter attack but Hume fails to control the ball in the opposition box, thus giving away possession
07:10 PM
5' Hume takes the ball on his chest and lobs it in the Kerala box but there's no one to do justice to it
07:07 PM
3' Mehtab's ball goes out for a goal kick
2' Kerala get a free kick for a foul on Nazon
07:05 PM
1' Vineeth's cross from right goes over the cross bar. Goal kick to ATK
07:04 PM
The stadium looks yellow from top to bottom
07:03 PM
And we are underway
07:00 PM
Teams pose for group pictures. One big effort is all they need to grab the title
06:55 PM
Nita Ambani, Praful Patel and the co-owners of the both the teams, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly line up alongside their respective teams
06:54 PM
Players walk out to the middle to line up for Indian national anthem for one last time
| Edited By: Argha Bhattacharya |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Sep 30, 2017, 10:59 AM IST
