Bengaluru: Debutants Bengaluru FC registered a thumping 4-1 win as they outclassed the Delhi Dynamos in their Indian Super League match at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Sunday evening.
Erik Partaalu struck twice (24th and 45th minute) while Lenny Rodriguez (57th) and Miku (87th) piled on the misery.
Kalu Uche scored from the penalty spot in the 86th minute to pull one back for the Dynamos after a contentious penalty went their way.
With this win, Bengaluru climbed to the top of the league table with six points from two matches.
Partaalu nodded home for his first goal after he received the header from Harmanjot Khabra on Edu Garcia's free-kick on the right. He scored his second goal as he headed the ball past Albino Gomes on Edu Garcia's corner-kick.
Lenny Rodriguez registered the third goal on a rebound from Albino Gomes' hands as he tried to clear Udanta Singh's shot in 57th minute.
Before Lenny could score the goal though, Sunil Chhetri did well to find Udanta, who controlled the ball well before sending in the cross on the left.
Nicolas Ladislao Fedor Flores (Miku) finally opened his account too as he got the fourth goal for the home side in 87th minute when his shot whizzed past Albino's reach.
The Dynamos were awarded a penalty -- from which Uche scored -- after John Johnson was pulled up for a handling the ball inside the box when trying to clear Seitysen Singh's cross.
The home side missed a scoring chance in the 39th minute as goalkeeper Albino Gomes saved a left-footed shot of Garcia off skipper Chhetri's pass.
Bengaluru wasted yet another chance in the 77th minute after Albino did well to dive to his left and punched the shot taken by Miku after Delhi lost possession of the ball.
Both the coaches fielded the same teams which had beaten their respective rivals in their last encounters.
Dynamos had only one real chance in the match as Kalu Uche's header whizzed off-target off a Guyon Luis Fenandez cross inside Bengaluru's box in the 37th minute. Before having a go at the home side goal, Uche received a pass from Claudio Matias Mirajbe Correa.
In the ninth minute, Paulinho Dias' right-footed shot from right flank was punched away to safety by Bengaluru goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu.
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