The 2024-25 season of the Indian Super League is in full swing, and with games coming thick and fast, this is a convenient place to catch up on every match. We'll have a report after every match, right up to the rest day signalling the end of the matchweek.
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The report on all matches from matchweek 11 is here.
Here are the details for matchweek 12 of ISL 2024-25 with the latest match report coming first:
East Bengal FC 1 - 2 Odisha FC
(Lalchungnunga 53 - Jerry Mawihmingthanga 56', Hugo Boumous 81')
Odisha FC climbed to third in the table after a late 2-1 win over ten-man East Bengal, after the controversial sending off of Jeakson Singh put East Bengal on the backfoot for much of the game.
The hosts and the visitors traded chances in the first half, although Odisha came closest with Isak Ralte and Hugo Boumous hitting the bar. East Bengal's fortunes took a bad turn in the 43rd minute, when Jeakson Singh was sent off for a second yellow card after catching Diego Mauricio with his elbow, but replays showed it was an erroneous decision.
However, the ten men were the ones to take the lead early in the second half - when Lalchungnunga gave East Bengal the lead with a composed finish after a scramble in the box following a corner, as Amrinder Singh made a mistake. The joy did not last for long, as Odisha were level almost immediately. Isak Ralte won the ball off Mahesh Singh, and played Jerry Mawihmingthanga into the box on the right and he sliced an attempted cross into the net to make it 1-1 in the 56th minute.
Odisha ended the contest in the 81st minute after Hugo Boumous gave them the lead. Saviour Gama took a quick throw-in on the left touchline and sent Diego Mauricio clear, with the Odisha forward skipping past Anwar Ali before cutting the ball back to the onrushing Boumous, who stroked the ball into the net with a powerful finish. Odisha saw out the rest of the match with ease, confirming all three points as they climbed to third in the table, while East Bengal languished in 11th.
Chennaiyin FC 1 - 0 Hyderabad FC
(Irfan Yadwad 5')
Owen Coyle made a major tweak to his formation, going to 3-5-2 against Hyderabad as he looked to end a streak of four winless games, and it paid off early. Irfan Yadwad, playing as one of the two up top, ran off his marker, onto a through ball from Lukas Brambilla and slotted him (albeit not cleanly) to give Chennaiyin the lead in the fifth minute.
That was the only goal of a game that had Chennaiyin had the better of, with 14 shots to 8 and 1.06 xG to 0.53 despite Hyderabad having 57% of the ball. A late red card to Connor Shields (a second yellow for timewasting, of all things) will annoy Coyle, though, as he prepares to take on defending champions Mumbai City in ten days time.
Chennaiyin have now climbed to seventh, behind NEUFC only on GD (though the latter have a game in hand) while Hyderabad remain in 12th.