Indian Women's League: Prameshwori helps ESU edge out Rising Student's Club
Source: The Sangai Express / AIFF Media Team
Imphal, March 29 2018:
Defending champions Eastern
Sporting Union clinched their
second consecutive win in the
Hero Indian Women's League
2017-18 when they edged out
last year's finalists Rising
Student's Club 1-0 at the
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here
in Shillong today.
Captain Irom Prameshwori
scored the solitary goal of the
match after lobbing it over the
keeper's head in the 3rd
minute.
With this win Eastern
sit pretty on top with 6 points
from their 2 matches.
Eastern Sporting Union
attacked from the word go as
the Prameshwori and Kamala
Devi combined well in the
opening couple of minutes.
It
yielded a goal straightaway
when Prameshwori lobbed it
over the keeper Tikina's head
who was left stranded.
Defender Sweety found
Roja inside the box in the 6th
minute but the striker was
unable to control the ball.
Kamala too unleashed a shot
of her own in the 13th but it
hit the side-netting only.
Slowly but surely Rising
made a comeback as Sanju
and Lochana combined well
together.
Sanju took aim in
the 23rd but her shot missed
narrowly.
Sweety too at-
tempted to score at the other
end but her shot was easily
collected by Tikina.
Then in the 28th minute
Anju Tamang squandered a
sitter.
She found herself in the
clear with only Panthoi to
beat but a rush of blood
saw her making a hash of it
as she bundled her shot over
the bar.
Prameshwori and Kamala
both came close to doubling the
lead but they were unable to
put it on target.
The final chance
of the half went to Lochana
who just needed to place it but
her shot went way over the bar
as the teams headed into the
break.
Rising came out strongly in
the second half as Sanju was a
livewire down the right hand
side of the park.
The trio of
Sanju, Lochana and Anju put
serious pressure on the East-
ern backline but player of the
match Manisa Panna and
Umapati Devi were on hand
to keep them at bay.
Sanju had a couple of
chances to shoot but she
wasted both of them while
Prameshwori saw her shot
curl past the far post.
Sanju
who was by far the most
impressive of all Rising play-
ers had another chance in the
69th but her left footer
missed by a whisker.
It just wasn't Rising's day
as Anju Tamang failed on her
chance at redemption in the
80th before Kamala shot
straight at Tikina in the 81st.
Rising threw in a final roll
of the dice when Ngoubi
rushed down the flank in the
90th minute but her cross
went past the goal mouth as
no Rising player was able to
make the connection.
Eastern Sporting Union
will face India Rush SC in
their next encounter on March
31 while Rising Student's
Club will take on KRYHPSA
on the same day.