Mohun Bagan Super Giant head coach Jose Molina expressed his contentment with the Mariners' settling for a draw with Chennaiyin FC on Tuesday.

Both teams adopted a cautious approach from the start, avoiding empty spaces for the opposition and maintaining solid defensive structures. The pattern remained unchanged in the second half, as the Mariners held 71% of the ball possession and dominated play, but they could not find a breakthrough, settling for a second consecutive draw on the road.

Match Report: Chennaiyin FC 0-0 Mohun Bagan Super Giant

Molina made several changes to the line-up, introducing fresh legs after their game against Jamshedpur FC last Friday.

Dimitrios Petratos, Greg Stewart, Abhishek Suryawanshi, and Suhail Bhat replaced Jamie Maclaren, Jason Cummings, Liston Colaco, and Manvir Singh in the starting XI.

“After the Jamshedpur FC match, not too much time was available to recover, and I thought this was the formation for today. And I think it worked,” Molina said at the post-match press conference.

“But it's true that in the final pass and finishing, we were not successful enough to score, but I think we were absolutely superior on the pitch,” he added.

Aussie duo Jamie Maclaren and Jason Cummings, who scored the decisive goal in the dying minutes when the two sides met in the reverse leg, were brought on in the second half, but despite creating chances, they were unable to find the breakthrough.

“In the second half, it was similar, and at the end, in the last minutes, I tried to put our usual formation, with two wingers, with (Jamie) Maclaren inside, and Cummings coming in during the last minutes. Even then, we had some chances in that moment but were still not able to score.

“This one point was not what we were looking for when we came. But, okay, it's one more point. We're going to keep working and start thinking about the next match,” stated Molina.

This is the first time that Mohun Bagan Super Giant have dropped points in consecutive matches, such has been the nature of their season. However, Molina remained pleased with collecting another point on the road.

They remain on top of the table with 37 points from 17 matches, seven points clear of second-placed FC Goa, who have a game in hand.

“What we did in the last two matches was win two points. We wanted to win six, that's true. And we only won two. But we won two points.

“And of course, we are going to keep fighting. You know, we knew that it wasn't going to be easy to win the League Shield. It's never easy. And we still have some points of difference with the second team,” he commented.