The sky-blue outfit collected 23 points with seven wins and two draws while Russell obtained 18 points with five wins and three draws, both playing ten matches. Muktijoddha is in the second position with 22 points from nine matches.
Abahani skipper Pranotosh scored the opener for Abahani in the 31st minute and striker Shakawat Hossain Rony added the second in the 50th minute.
Pranotosh pounded a grounder past Russell custodian Mamun Khan after a Twum Frank push was deflected by the rival defenders.
Abahani continued the pressure and doubled the lead in the 50nd minute as Rony’s cool headed chip over Mamun Khan landed in the net.
The losers created two clear chances to reduce the margin in the 70th and 74th minute but all their efforts went in vain due to lack of good finishers.
Ghanaian midfielder Modo Mohammed right footer went over the crossbar from a pass of striker Wahed in the first occasion. Cameroonian forward Jimgou Guy Charles’s 20 yarder, in the 74th minute was smartly parried away my Abahani goalie Sohel in the second.
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