Bashundhara Kings blanked Abahani Limited, Dhaka by 2-0 goals in the Bashundhara Group Bangladesh Premier League football held at Bashundhara Kings arena in the capital today (Friday).

In the day’s match forward Faisal Ahmed Fahim scored both the goal for Kings who led the first half by 1-0 goal.

Fahim opened an account for Kings scoring the first goal in the 16th minute and after the resumption he doubled the lead scoring the second goal in the 49th minute of the match.

Abahani Limited, however tried their best to stage a fight back in the match but they could not score any in the remaining proceeding and eventually they had to leave the field with empty hand.

Sohel Rana and Saad Uddin of Kings and Shahin Ahammad of Abahani were shown direct red cards by the referee in the 90+5th minute for their unsporting behavior in the match.

With the day’s win, the defending champions Bashundhara Kings, standing third position in the league table improved their tally with 24 points from 13 matches while the traditional sky blue Dhanmondi outfit Abahani Limited, who stand second position in the league table, remained at their previous collection of 27 points playing the same number of matches.

Earlier, in the first leg, Abahani edged past Bashundhara Kings by a solitary goal held at Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta Stadium in Cumilla.

Saturday’s matches: Fakirerpool Young Men’s Club vs Chittagong Abahani Limited (3.45 pm) and Brothers Union vs Rahmatganj (3.45pm).