Calcutta: Miku and Udanta Singh struck in the injury time as Bengaluru FC (BFC) completed the double over Kerala Blasters with a 2-0 win at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Thursday's ISL IV encounter.
BFC were made to wait till the dying moments of the game, before they converted their dominance into late goals to win their 13th game of the campaign. The result took the hosts to an unprecedented 40 points at the end of the league stage.
Miku made amends for the miss in the first minute of injury time as he smashed home substitute Daniel Segovia's set up for his 14th goal of the season. While it seemed that BFCs would wrap up the game at 1-0, Udanta made up for his earlier miss with a sweet finish from inside the box to seal the full points.
With no Juanan Gonzalez, John Johnson (suspensions) and Harmanjot Khabra (injury) in defence, Albert Roca's line-up had Erik Paartalu alongside Rahul Bheke and Subhasish at the back, while Nishu Kumar slotted in at left-back.
In a first half where BFC chose calm and caution over flamboyance, it was Miku and Sunil Chetri who fed off each other to keep the Blasters' defence on their toes.
The captain had a shot at goal in the 11th minute, but it was one that flew wide.
Nishu then had a couple of bold efforts, but couldn't keep them on target. But the chance of the half belonged to Miku.
On the stroke of half-time, Miku took control of a fantastic pass by Dimas Delgado.
