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Chennaiyin FC did not person a creaseless thrust into the sunset arsenic it ended its already dismal Indian Super League (ISL) 2025-26 run with a 1-2 nonaccomplishment against Bengaluru FC astatine the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium present connected Saturday (May 16, 2026).
Daniel Chima Chukwu and Ryan Williams traded strikes successful the archetypal half, earlier debutant Serto Worneilen Kom bagged a precocious winner, leaving Chennaiyin 13th successful the array with conscionable 9 points.
In sweltering conditions, Bengaluru asserted power courtesy of its four-man midfield with Braian Sanchez and Soham Varshneya investigating the absorption goalkeeper successful the opening fractional hour.
But for each its dominance, it was Chennaiyin that amazingly broke the deadlock.
Chukwu started the swift determination by winning the shot successful the mediate of the transportation and distributing it earlier moving up to instrumentality up presumption wrong the box. The ball, meanwhile, made its mode astir to Mandar Rao Desai, who was played done connected the near helping earlier laying it connected a sheet for Chukwu.
Bengaluru was hopeless for an equaliser earlier the break, and this clip its hunger was rewarded arsenic William pulled disconnected a crisp one-touch determination with Lalremtluanga Fanai to acceptable himself up for an casual decorativeness from adjacent range.
Ryan Williams scores Bengaluru FC’s opening extremity against Chennaiyin FC during their Indian Super League shot lucifer astatine the Jawaharalal Nehru Stadium, Chennai, connected Saturday, May 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU
The visitors sealed the crippled successful the closing stages of a drab 2nd fractional aft Williams breached the container earlier cutting the shot backmost to Fanai. Pritam Kotal stood beardown to artifact his shot, lone to spot the escaped shot smashed into an bare extremity by substitute Kom, who took vantage of a snoozing defence.
With the win, Bengaluru kept its mathematical rubric chances live and temporarily leads the standings with 23 points.
The result: Chennaiyin FC 1 (Daniel Chima Chukwu 34) mislaid to Bengaluru FC 2 (Ryan Williams 43, Serto Worneilen Kom 89).
