1st PIC Cup U-13 Boys Football Meet : ELSA ground NFA convincingly
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 13 2014 :
ELSA Naransena grounded NFA Moirang by a margin of 8 goals to 3 in the 1st PIC U-13 Boys' football tournament played at the ground of Moirang Higher Secondary School today.
Kh Humba of ELSA led the goal charge finding the net five times, in the 4th, 10th, 15th, 55th and 58 minutes of the match to single handedly take the game away from NFA Moirang.
N Rakesh (11th minute), Beron (19th minute) and Washington (23rd minute) added to the five goals of Humba to take the tally of their team to 8 goals.
Reeling under the onslaught of Humba, NFA Moirang could only reply with three goals, though one of them was an own goal, ironically from Humba.
M Maheshkumar found the net in the 31st minute and M Suresh in 33rd minute for the losing side.
In another match, BPA Nachou edged past YWO Bishnupur by 2 goals to 1 .
T Rohit of BPA Nachou put his team ahead with a well taken shot in the 30th minute.
The team from Bishnupur however fought back and found the equaliser in the 42nd minute through Th Nani.
The equaliser was shortlived though as L Michael scored the winning goal in the 44th minute of the game.
In the third match of the day, SFC Moirang got the better of Young Star Thamnapokpi by scoring four times and conceding 2 goals.
It was Young Star Thamnapokpi which took the lead as early as the 7th minute when Ondang found the net.
The lead was shortlived, as the team from Moirang equalised in the 13th minute with Onmalson finding the target and followed it up with another goal in the 19th minute.
Rajesh of Young Star reduced the margin in the 37th minute, but it was SFC all the way as they netted the goal in the 46th minute through Gogou and Romingson in the 60th minute.