Victories for Ralruwng, Kanankhu in Soldong United Soccer
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 22 2019:
Ralruwng and Kanankhu advanced to the next round of the ongoing 1st Soldong United 9 A Side Football Tournament after defeating their opponents at Maha Union ground, Japhou Keithel today.
In today's first match, Ralruwng downed POPEM FC 6-5 in penalty shootout after their regular time match ended in 1-1 goal.
Though POPEM FC drew the first blood in the 21st minute of the game through Kohringam, Ralruwng sent in the equalizer in the 31st minute through Thumwarhring.
As both the team failed to find the winning goal in the normal time, the match was dragged to kick from penalty mark to decide the winner.
Ralruwng proved much stronger team in the decider scoring all the five alloted goals as against the four goals scored by POPEM FC and took home the match with 6-5 goals.
For Ralruwng, Hmalngam, Henry, Thumwarhring, Bekling and Beningthal were the successful goal scorer while for POPEM FC, Kohenson, Lawrenge, Phowlhring and Phowltha managed to covert their penalty mark into goal.
Similarly, the match between UFC and Kanankhu FC was also decided in kick from penalty mark after their match ended in 1-1 goal.
UFC was leading with 1-0 through early brace from Angwar (4') for a quite of period of time and was comfortably heading for a win, but an equalizer from NL Larnihring of Kanankhu FC in the 57th minute smashed the hope of UFC leading to 1-1 goal at the end of the normal time.
In the penalty shootout, Kanankhu FC thrashed UFC by 5-3 goals and sealed the match with 6-4 goals.
Belarhring, Larnihring, Marson, Mowargnam, Jackson scored for Kanankhu FC while Bungdam, Samuel and Koling scored for UFC.