ISL 2019-20: NorthEast United 0-2 Bengaluru FC | 5 Talking Points 

#3 Bengaluru remain the set-piece kings

Sunil Chhetri scored his fifth goal of the season

Carles Cuadrat loves his set-pieces. At this point, you don't really have to congratulate anyone who states that for making an astounding discovery. It is evident, the Bengaluru head coach has admitted he loves working set-pieces, and it shows with how good Bengaluru are from those situations.

Before this game, Bengaluru had score four of their eight goals from corners, and one penalty. They've now made it six set-piece goals out of the ten that they have scored, with two penalties.

But the extent of their threat was summed up in the build-up to both goals. NorthEast dealt with the first ball that Dimas Delgado sent in both times, yet Bengaluru were there, sniffing blood in the second phase.

On the first occasion, a couple of lucky deflections took the ball to Juanan on the edge of the area, and he simply lofted one that Redeem handled, and the referee made the right call in pointing to the spot. Chhetri doesn't really get rustled when he's faced by a goalkeeper 12 yards away from him, and he proved that with a calm low penalty, to put his side in the lead.

The second goal was a lot more scrappy, but it was again after a Dimas set-piece had been cleared. Chhetri had a miss kick on the edge of the area, Nishu Kumar scuffed a shot, but the ball fell to Erik Paartalu on the left wing, and the big Aussie delivered, with his wrong foot even, an inch-perfect cross for Serran to head past Subhashish Roy Chowdhury and claim his first ever goal for Bengaluru.

They're good enough from initial set-pieces to scare opponents, tonight Bengaluru showed that they could be just as lethal from the second phase as well.