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#4 The Warriors let it slip in the end, quite literally
After trading blows early on in the contest, the home side, the Bengal Warriors, had managed to establish an eight-point lead thanks to an All Out. 12-12 at half-time, the Warriors started the brighter to take a 21-13 lead with Maninder Singh continuing to dazzle and Delhi's own raiders having a below-par night.
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With time remaining though, Dabang had every opportunity of making a comeback. And it started with Anand Patil - with 8 minutes remaining in the contest, he picked up a Super Raid narrowing the deficit to 25-20. Soon the Warriors found themselves reduced to just two men.
Meraj having an off-night managed to do what he does best in such situations though - effect the All Out getting rid of both men on his raid to give his side a 4-point raid and just like that it was now a 2-point game with just over 7 minutes left. Meraj though had to leave the mat due to an injury and did not return.
The Warriors kept pegging away and were doing just enough to keep their lead safe and led 31-27 with 125 seconds to go. That's when it started to go badly for the Warriors - Vinod Kumar got snapped up on a Do or Die raid, the experienced Ran Singh made a costly error to gift Anand Patil a point and another easy point on Delhi's next raid meant it was now a one-point game with just 14 seconds left.
Dabang did not allow Maninder to even cross the baulk line and put in a superb team tackle to keep him inches away from crossing back to tie the game up. Anand Patil played it safe with an empty final raid.
What was glaring was that the mistakes from the Warriors came from some of the most experienced hands. After two straight losses, this could have been a good win to arrest the slide. Instead it ended in a tie with Dabang Delhi clearly the happier of the two sides at the end. In the absence of two of their leading men in Abolfazl Maghsodlou and Meraj, Dabang still managed to show a lot of grit to come back in this one.
