IW Super Division League : Rostam brace in vain as SKYC ease to 5-2 win
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 23 2019:
SKYC, Awang Sekmai cruised to a 52 win against BMSC, Taobungkhok today in the 8 th league match of the 20th Sougaijam Birendra Singh Memorial Super Division Football Tournament 2019 being organised by Imphal West District Football Association at Turf Ground, Khuman Lampak.
SKYC, Awang Sekmai came out all guns blazing right from the onset of the game and had the lead within 4 minutes with Chungmei taking the honour before his compatriot Anand doubled their advantage with a fine strike in the 35th minute.
BMSC, Taobungkhok which were reeling under pressure for better portion of the first half came out of their misery with Ph Rostam leading the attack up at the front and made it 1-2 in the minute adjacent to Anand's goal for the Sekmai side.
After leading the first half 2-1, confident SKYC gained more control of the game as A Kinesh (42') and K Newton (44') added a goal each to extend the lead well past BMSC which grabbed one more goals through Ph Rostam in the 48th minute.
BMSC toiled hard to reduce the margin in the remaining portion of the game but SKYC defence managed to stonewall all incisive moves before Robert added another goal to the team's tally during the stoppage time and made it 5-2 at the end.
S Babul of SKYC was yellow carded in the 33rd minute of the match.
Meanwhile the 9th league match of the tournament between CHIKL, Chajing and YDO, Konjenglamdong Leikai ended in a 1-1 draw.
YDO led the first half 1-0 thanks to N Olen's 39th minute strike but CHIKL, which held MPSC 4-4 in their earlier fixture, found the equaliser 3 minutes past the hour mark when K Amarjit made his effort count taking numerical advantage as YDO lost Y Dinesh after a straight red in the 58th minute.
The second half of the game also witnessed an unexpected turn as 4 other players (three of CHIKL and one of YDO) were yellow carded by the referee.
Next matches
Date 25: YWC-L vs SKYC; MPSC vs YDO .