Bhavaniapur and East Bengal played out a 1-1 draw in the Calcutta Premier Division regular season on Thursday. The match ended level after both sides found the net in quick succession during the second half.
It was the visitors who took the lead just after the interval when S. Besra struck in the forty-sixth minute. He made a run into the box and finished cleanly to give his side the advantage going into the final twenty minutes of the first half of play.
East Bengal responded almost immediately. N. Ananthu equalised in the fifty-first minute, four minutes after his teammate's opener. By then the momentum had shifted, and the hosts found themselves chasing the game once more.
This result leaves both sides level on points in the table. Bhavaniapur sit second while East Bengal remain top, each with twenty-seven points from eleven games. Neither has lost a match this season, which makes this draw a fair reflection of two evenly matched sides.
The hosts have been unbeaten in five ahead of this fixture, while the visitors showed their resilience with that quick equaliser. The table goes out of the window in these games, and both teams will take something positive from this encounter.