Calcutta, Aug. 21 :    Calcutta, Aug. 21:  MOHUN BAGAN 2 MUKTIJODDHA 1 A ?home? match can be scary. And if you happen to concede a goal, you are in a bit of a fix, even if you have won 2-1 pretty convincingly. At the Salt Lake Stadium today Mohun Bagan beat Bangladesh?s Muktijoddha Sansad Krira Chakra, but they will carry their hearts in their shirtsleeves when they go to Dhaka for the ?away? tie September 11. Chima Okerie put Mohun Bagan ahead before Bakhtiar-ud-din Khan restored parity. Dipendu Biswas was lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time. He headed in the winner. Adrenalin was in short supply onfield. Muktijoddha did manage a say in the midfield, but that momentum was soon lost. At the other end, pores in the Mohun Bagan defence were letting in the daylight. And the attack lines were sloppy, except, of course, Chima. The veteran?s admirable tenacity and consistency grows from his self-belief. Time and again, he managed to put fear into the rival defence. A 13th-minute Bakhtiar shot off a Raza-ul Karim Liton pass was just off the far post. That sounded warning bells even though Mohun Bagan had by then taken over much of the exchanges. But the attack approach was slow. Khalique?s free role looked restricted to his limited imagination. That was sad. With the markers on Chima, Khalique could have walked into the limelight. Breathing became easy in the 25th minute when Amitava Chanda?s pass to the top of the box was trapped and controlled well by Chima. He drew one defender aground and sidestepped Saif-ul Bari Titu?s challenge before sending a grounder in past the far post. Goalkeeper Amin-ul Haque had little chance. By then, Emeka Achilefu was a liability in the attack. Q.E.D. Coach Syed Nayeemuddin decided to introduce his ?surprise? element, Lukram James Singh. Nayeem himself was surprised at the 19-year-old?s irresponsible and selfish attitude onfield. Satyajit Chatterjee had managed the halfline well till then, but was getting exhausted. That was clear when he picked up a booking for rough play. Basudeb Mondal and Dulal Biswas had, one after other, made bad misses of good shots and the second half showed the tourists in better light. Ten minutes after changeover, Bakhtiar-ud-Din latched on to a Saif-ul pass and the Mohun Bagan defence crumbled. Samuel Omollo tumbled, Debjit Ghosh managed only to lazily chase Bakhtiar till the latter?s shot beat a diving Dora for the equaliser. Dipendu replaced Khalique and scored. It was no credit to Dipendu, who was actually following Chima. In the 63rd minute he happened to be at the goalmouth, where Basudeb?s long lob arrived. Dipendu managed to outjump Chima for the header. His exultation looked hollow in the face of his totally apathetic performance thereafter. Jewel Rana, the Muktijoddha skipper, has become too slow to be effective, and key man Imtiaz Ahmed Naquib was fully bottled up by his markers. For Mohun Bagan, they probably need a new, improved Samuel Omollo. TEAMS MOHUN BAGAN: Hemanta Dora, Dulal Biswas, Samuel Omollo, Debjit Ghosh, Amitava Chanda, R.P. Singh (Lukram James Singh, 31), Satyajit Chatterjee (Kasif Jamal, 73), Basudeb Mondal, Abdul Khalique (Dipendu Biswas, 62), Chima Okerie, Emeka Achilefu. MUKTIJODDHA: Md Amin-ul Haque, Md Hasan Al-Mamun, Rajanikanta Barman, Jewel Rana, Masud Rana, Saif-ul Bari Titu, Arif Khan Joy (Mamum Hossain, 50), Alio Rehman (Walid Khan, 70), Bakhtiar-ud-din Khan, Raza-ul Karim Liton (Mahboob Hossain Raksy, 86), Imtiaz Ahmed Naquib. Referee: Babaev Abduirakhim (Tajikistan).