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[caption id="attachment_18691" align="alignnone" width="580"] East Bengal open their campaign against Bhwanipur tomorrow. File Pic[/caption] Kolkata: East Bengal will open their campaign in the CFL 2016 against Bhawanipur FC tomorrow at Kalyani stadium in Kalyani from 3:30 p.m. Ahead of the opening match East Bengal coach Trevor Morgan trained his side today at Howrah stadium for almost 2 hours which was beyond his nature and it comprised of lots of set pieces and corner movement. Regarding the training, the gaffer said, "Bhawanipur is a very good side and we need to get early goals to put pressure on them. So I was giving stress on situation practice like corner and set piece." Bhawanipur FC will be without the services of Lalkamal Bhowmick due to injury but their two new foreigners defender Richard and striker Orok Orok Essien will lead them under new coach Debjit Ghosh who was East Bengal's mentor last season and it is expected that he will know inches about the strengths and weaknesses of East Bengal players. Bhawanipur FC consists of former players from the two giants East Bengal and Mohun Bagan in the likes of Tulunga, Manish Bhargav, Tirthankar Sarkar, Ram Malik, Satish Singh, Jony Routh and others. Trevor had cautioned his boys of not taking any team lightly in the CFL as all the teams this time are expected to be giant-killers. Although Trevor did not display his first XI for tomorrow but is expected that Dong may start as he trained with the first team today along with Angus while Adelaja may come in as a change. East Bengal probable first xi: Luis Barreto, Narayan Das, Rahul Bheke, Calum Angus, Gurwinder Singh, Mehtab Hossain, Dika, Abinash Ruidas, Rafique, Dong, Jiten Murmu.