Challenge Cup Veteran Football: VSAI, UVSA book semifinals spot
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 20 2015 :
VSAI, Thangmeiband and UVSA, Lilong Chajing moves comfortably into the semifinals of the 17th Challenge Cup Veteran Football Tournament being played under the supervision of Manipur Veteran Football Association (MVFA) at Mapal Kangjeibung on Wednesday.
VSAI, Thangmeiband toyed with VBFAM Keishampat in the quarter final match today to register a comfortable victory in 5-2 .
VSAI dominated the game from early minute of the match and kept scoring at regular intervals.
Kh Ratan and T Shyam scored two early goals in 11th and 13th to stunned VBFAM.
The two goals take the steam out of VBFAM and they could not recovered form the shock.
At half time VSAI leads 2-0 .
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After change of ends, M Debananda compounded the issued of VBFAM by adding a goal in 35th min to lead 3-0.VBFAM finally found the target in 52nd min through Suresh.
With two goals deficit VBFAM tried to reduce the deficit in the process left vacant space in the back.
VSAI exploited the spaces and added two goals in 53rd and 57th min through N Evankumar and Stanlee Mahongnero and takes the game beyond the reach of VBFAM.
Suresh again added one more in 58th min to take his personal score to two but could not prevent his team from moving out of the competition.
In the other match, UVSA Thangmeiband scored three second half goals to advance into the semifinals against SIRTI.
Both the teams began the game cautiously resulting in a barren first half.
In the second half, N Gandhi scored the first goal of the match in 40th min for UVSA.
A Jayenta stunned SIRTI with another goal in the next minute (41st min).
SIRTI players were all around the ground in search of goals but did find any opportunity.
N Gandhi completes the formalities in 55th min to take his team to semifinals.
FLAM Babupara will play against FC Imphal in the first semifinal on May 21, 2 pm.