ISL 2017: FC Pune City vs Bengaluru FC, 5 Talking Points

BFC looked unusually pedestrian tonight

FC Pune City played with a lot of intent as long as they had 11 men on the pitch. (Photo: ISL)

Bengaluru are a side renowned for their professionalism on the pitch. They rarely take their foot off the gas. Which is why, tonight, it was rather unusual to see the visitors struggling to keep possession of the ball.

Even the in-form, Paartalu was guilty of conceding possession far too easily and was substituted at the hour mark. Striker Miku struggled to involve himself in the thick of things. Udanta rarely got a chance to run riot on the right and Sunil looked sluggish for large parts of the game.

Bengaluru lacked urgency and took too much time to move the ball from one end of the pitch to the other. Pune pressed them incessantly and worked extremely hard to keep the visitors at bay. Luckily for BFC, the red card to Pune's, Baljit Sahni in the second half made things far easier.