Defending Champion NISA beaten by TRAU at 7th MSL
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, September 04 2012:
In an interesting tough match today, defending champion, North Imphal Sporting Association (NISA) was defeated by Tiddim Road Athletic Union (TRAU), Kwakeithel 3-0 at the ongoing 7th Manipur State League organised by the All Manipur Football Association (AMFA) at Mapal Kangjeibung, Imphal.
The match began with high notes among the players of both teams.
As the match progressed to an interesting one, TRAU gradually began to dominate the match and open their goal account in the 27th minute of the match by N Dhananjoy.
Minutes later, Th Premkumar scored another goal against defending champion NISA in the 38th minute and extended the lead to 2-0 .
On the other hand, a shocked NISA took some time to recover from the shock but managed to defend themselves from further goals in the first half.
In the second half, both teams played the match with full determination and fought each other equally.
TRAU who were trying to add more goal into their account could not find any chance to do so.
On the other hand, NISA while trying to equalise the score could not find any blind spot to get behind the strong defence of TRAU and failed to score any goal.
As the normal time elapsed and the match progressing towards its end in the injury time, Dhananjoy of TRAU again scored another last minute volley in the 90+4 minute and sealed the match to a 3-0 win.