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Challenge Cup Veteran Football: FLAM, SEETRI register wins
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 24 2015 :
FLAM Babupara and SEETRI Chandel registered comfortable wins in league match of the 17th Challenge Cup Veteran Football Tournament being played under the supervision of Manipur Veteran Football Association (MVFA) at Mapal Kangjeibung on Friday.
FLAM scored two goals in first half to beat Sadar Hills District Sports Association (SHDSA) by 2-0 while SEETRI's double strike in second half guides them to victory over IVFA Chanchipur in 2-1 .
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The first match shows FLAM striking moves towards SHDSA territory and early in the match.
FLAM found SHDSA defenders napping and the opportunity was not wasted when O Kula's drive found the target in 6th min to take an early lead.
Stunned by the early goal, SHDSA pressed hard to get the equalizer.
The agility of FLAM defenders denied any opportunity to score.
While the match seems to go to the breather with one goal advantage in favour of FLAM, a quick counter attack show M Bobo beats his marker to slot the ball into the goalmouth of SHDSA in 24th min to increase the lead for FLAM.
Both the teams take the breather at 2-0 in favour of FLAM.
After the exchange of ends, SHDSA press more men in front to reduce the deficit but could not pass the wall of FLAM defenders and eventually had to end second best in the match.
In the other league match, IVFA Chanchipur began the match lively and took early lead through A Babu in the 11th min.
SEERTI regrouped and made created numerous scoring opportunities.
SEERTI could have taken the equalizer and the lead had IVFA custodian not stood in the way.
At the breather, IVFA leads SEERTI by 1-0 .
The break transformed SEERTI into a different team, encourage by the fact that they did not concede further goals more than the early one, they made series of raids into IVFA territory.
The raids resulted into a goal in the 36th min when W Elvis Monsang put the ball behind the goal line of IVFA for the equalizer.
The equalizer added a new lease of life to SEERTI players and the attack came in thick and fast.
IVFA defenders wilted under the storm of SEERTI attack and W Phamward Monsang scores a goal in 45th min.
The goal finally turns out to be the winning goal as SEERTI defended the lead till the final whistle.
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