ISL: Dudu Omagbemi, Konstantinos Katsouranis strike in Pune’s victory

Kolkata: Dudu Omagbemi and Konstantinos Katsouranis struck on either side of the break as FC Pune City capped an outstanding 3-1 away win against Atletico de Kolkata to end the league leaders’ unbeaten run in the ISL here on Friday.

However ATK still remained on top with 12 points.

The Pune franchise, who travelled without their French World Cup winner David Trezeguet, stunned one and all as their East Bengal recruit Dudu repaid his coach’s faith with a well-directed header in the 31st minute to silence the crowd.

Till then, ATK who were bolstered by the return of mercurial forward Fikru Teferra and manager Antonio Habas off the field impressed with their passing and had better possession against Pune. But the day clearly did not belong to the league leaders who had two howlers early on with their top two strikers Fikru and Borja Fernandez missing one each.

Having seized the momentum thanks to the Nigerian’s strike, Kostas Katsouranis made it 2-0 after the break when the Greek World Cupper used his outstep to curl one away as goalie Subhasish Roy Chowdhury looked in absolute disbelief.

ATK finally found themselves on the scoresheet in the 84th minute after Pune goalkeeper Arindam Bhattacharya felled Fikru in an inexplicable manner as the Ethiopian converted from the spot without much fuss.