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City Football Group, that owns English Premier League giants Manchester City, has bought a 65% stake in Ranbir Kapoor and Bimal Parekh co-owned ISL club Mumbai City FC on Thursday. They become City Football Groups' eighth football club and their third club in Asia with stakes in Japan and China.

While praising his team for their performance against Mumbai City, David James credited MCFC keeper Karanjit Singh for the draw in yesterday's game. Kerala took an early lead through Halicharan Narzary but a string of brilliant saves from Karanjit ensured Pranjal's late goal earned them a point.

Mumbai City FC retained Romanian and star defender Lucian Goian who will now join Amrinder Singh and Sehnaj Singh for the next two seasons of the Indian Super League. Goian represented the Romanian U-21 national team and later joined Dinamo București who have featured in the UEFA Champions League.

Star forward Sunil Chhetri, Udanta Singh, Amrinder Singh and Lalchhuanmawia Fanai will turn out for Mumbai City FC in the remainder of the ISL after last week’s AFC Cup final in which Bengaluru FC finished runners-up to Iraq’s Air Force Club.

Chennaiyin coach Marco Materazzi will serve a one-match suspension for ‘misconduct’ in the match against Kerala Blasters that was held on Saturday. Materazzi was involved in squabble with Kerala's Kervens Belfort after match had ended following the forward's tussle with Chennaiyin's Manuele Blasi.