Chennaiyin FC celebrate their win over Jamshedpur FC. Photo: X | Chennaiyin FC Chennaiyin FC celebrate their win over Jamshedpur FC. Photo: X | Chennaiyin FC Chennaiyin FC brought the curtain down on their 2024-25 Indian Super League season in styleceia888, securing a commanding 5-2 victory over Jamshedpur FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on March 9, Sunday. (Match Highlights | More Football News)
With this win, the Marina Machans now sit on 27 points from 24 matches, occupying the eighth spot in the standings.
Already qualified for the playoffs, the Red Miners started strongly seeking their record 13th win of the season. A long throw-in was cleared out of the Chennaiyin box, and it landed at Rei Tachikawa's feet just outside the 18-yard box. With great composure, Tachikawa struck the ball with his right foot, sending it into the bottom right corner to give Jamshedpur a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute.
The Marina Machans quickly found their equalizer with a swift counter-attack. A series of quick passes set up Farukh Choudhary, who made a well-timed run and played a lateral ball to Daniel Chima Chukwu. The striker’s shot took a deflection and nestled into the bottom left corner of the net in the 25th minute to level the score at 1-1.
In hopes of ending their season on a high in front of the home crowd, Chennaiyin took the lead just before halftime. Chima Chukwu laid off a brilliant pass to Lukas Brambilla, who used his pace and skill to calmly finish into the bottom right corner, giving the Machans a 2-1 advantage at the break.
Just like their first goal, Chennaiyin FC’s third came from a clinical strike. In the 57th minute, Farukh Choudhary spotted the open spaces in Jamshedpur FC's defense. After receiving a simple pass, he picked out Irfan Yadwad with a perfectly-weighted through ball. Irfan,89vip with a composed strike from outside the box, hammered the ball into the center of the net to put Chennaiyin FC 3-1 up.
Jamshedpur FC, however, weren’t backing down. They quickly found their rhythm and pulled one back. After a slick sequence of quick passes, Rei Tachikawa squared the ball for Mohammed Sanan, who fired a powerful shot into the top right corner from the center of the box, bringing them back within a goal to make it 3-2.
As the clock ticked ninety, Jordan Gil lobbed the ball over the Jamshedpur defence for Irfan to chase. The forward brought it down with a deft touch before poking it past the goalkeeper for his fifth of the season. Chima Chukwu then made it a brace for himself by beating the Jamshedpur offside trap and scoring with ease–making it six league goals for the season.
The 26-year-old scored 109 from 128 deliveries, smashing 13 hours and four sixes, helping India to set a massive 515-run target to chase for Bangladesh in the fourth innings of the Chennai Test.
The reigning Belinda Clark Medallist first laughed off the incident but then left the ground in tears, fearing an eighth career concussion as she was ruled out of the game. She was thankfully cleared later, and returned on Sunday (September 22, 2024) with a player of the match effort, picking up three wickets for 16 runs in the Aussies' 29-run win over New Zealand.
With the victoryceia888, Chennaiyin finished the ISL 2024-25 regular season with seven wins and 27 points.
