World Gym wins; Blackberry, AFC play goalless draw
Maniwood to fight Babina today
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, March 02 2013 :
World Gym today defeated Endeavor 4-2 in the first league match of Group D while Blackberry and Apunba Fitness Centre (AFC) played a goalless draw in a Group E league match at the 1st Xenoh Corporate Football Challenge 2013 today at TBSFA Sports Complexc, Taobungkhok Makha Leikai, Imphal West.
The first match today was a league match of Group D played between World Gym and Endeavor.
The match ended with World Gym as winner after defeating Endeavor 4-2 .
The match began with high notes among the players of both teams.
However the first half was dominated by World Gym players outclassing their opponents throughout the first half.
The first blood was drawn in the 2nd minute of the match by K Ashok.
Later his teammate Rakesh scored three successive goals against Endeavor in the 13th, 20th and 29th minutes of the match and earned a hat trick.
On the other hand, Endeavor players who could not open their goal account in the first half played the second half in a totally new tactics and tried their best to square back the game.
As a result, they opened their goal account in the 48th minute of the match.
Their first goal was scored by A Lenin.
Ten minutes later, Jimbago added another goal into their account in the 58th minute and narrowed the difference to two goals.
Leading by two goals, World Gym players recovered soon and defended themselves against the attacks of their opponents making it impossible for Endeavor players to score more goals till the end of the match.
H James and Veto of World Gym were issued yellow cards for playing fouls during the match.
Later, in a league match of Group E, Blackberry and Apunba Fitness Centre (AFC) played a goalless draw after displaying a tough fight.
Kala of Blackberry and Romi & W Ningthoungamba were issued yellow cards for their unsporting behaviour during the match.
IDEA and DESAM will fight in the first league match of Group F tomorrow at 1 pm while Babina Diagnostic Centre and MANIWOOD team will play the second league match of Group A at 2.45 pm tomorrow.