Kolkata: Atletico de Kolkata played out a&nbsp;goal-less draw against Chennaiyin FC in a high-intensity Indian Super League fixture to maintain their top spot here&nbsp;today.
Watched by a starry Bollywood gathering of Bachchan&nbsp;father-son duo and Deepika Padukone, the match had all the&nbsp;ingredients of an eventful contest, including a 11-minute&nbsp;interruption thanks to a familiar power outage at the&nbsp;Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan.
But a goal eluded both the teams as ATK would consider&nbsp;themselves unlucky after their star striker Fikru Teferra&nbsp;fluffing an easy chance while their marquee player and captain&nbsp;Luis Garcia's shot hit the crosspiece.
Even Chennaiyin FC very nearly went one-up in the 80th&nbsp;minute when Balwant Singh scored using a Jean-Eudes Maurice&nbsp;cross. But the Indian striker's deflection of his hands was&nbsp;quick to be spotted by referee Pratap Singh who disallowed the&nbsp;goal.
Chennaiyin's star Brazilian forward Elano Blumer also had&nbsp;a lacklustre day, missing some easy opportunities while his clinical freekicks too eluded him a goal.&nbsp;
Both teams refused to play second fiddle in the top of&nbsp;the table clash but it was ATK who had the best opportunity with Fikru firing it wide of the post.&nbsp;
In a 21st minute move, a full charged-up ATK dished out&nbsp;some amazing interplay between Garcia, Nato and Fikru who found himself in front of an open goal. But the Ethiopian let&nbsp;the team down firing it wide of the post in the best chance of&nbsp;the first-half.
If Fikru's shot broke the hearts of the 45,000-odd crowd&nbsp;in the first-half, former Liverpool star Luis Garcia hit the crossbar after a powerful curling left-footer on the edge of&nbsp;the box in the 62nd minute.
The Spaniard sent the ball curling towards the right top&nbsp;corner but the framework denied him as ATK had to settle for&nbsp;one point to retain their lead over the Chennai side on top of&nbsp;the league table by virtue of goal difference.
ATK made a couple of changes to their line up as their&nbsp;influential playmaker Jofre, who was suspended for their last&nbsp;match, returned in place of Kingshuk Debnath while Lester&nbsp;Fernandez replaced Cavin Lobo.
In their battle for the top spot, Chennaiyin FC also made&nbsp;two changes, bringing in Eric Djemba-Djemba and Dane Pereira&nbsp;for Bojan Djordjic and Denson Devdas.

Atletico de Kolkata played out a&nbsp;goal-less draw with Chennaiyin FC in a high-intensity Indian Super League fixture to maintain their top spot&nbsp;on Friday

ISL: Atletico play out 0-0 draw against Chennaiyin

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Atletico de Kolkata played out a&nbsp;goal-less draw with Chennaiyin FC in a high-intensity Indian Super League fixture to maintain their top spot&nbsp;on Friday

ISL: Atletico play out 0-0 draw against Chennaiyin

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