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Sporting Clube de Goa managed to register a solitary goal win over Churchill Brothers Sports Club in the GFA Taca Goa U-20 League organised by GFA, at Duler stadium here on Saturday. The all important goal for the winners came in the 53rd minute through Trijoy Dias.
In a lacklustre encounter, both the teams restricted the play mostly to midfield with both the keepers being hardly tested in the first session of play. Sporting stopper backs Kunal Kundoikar and Schubert D'Costa curtailed every move whic
h the Churchill Brothers lads initiated from the midfield.
At the other end it was some fine defending from Sam Palha, skipper Amit Bisht along with keeper Wasim Khan that restricted Sporting strikers Ronald Martins and Chandan Gawas from doing any damage. In the entire first session, Sporting had just one good attempt at the rival goal where a strong header from Ronald Martins struck the horizontal bar.
On crossing over, the Sporting unit showed more promise coming from the dressing room, wherein in the very first minute, Alston Camotio's corner was fisted away to safety by Churchill keeper
Wasim Khan.
Finally after much probing, Sporting colts shot into the lead through some individual brilliance from substitute Trijoy Dias, 1-0. The Flaming Oranje came close to increasing their lead in the 75th minute, but a smart cross by Alston Camotio at the far post saw Myron Fernandes a bit too late to finish. Just a minute before the final whistle, Sporting's Trijoy Dias and Churchill Brothers' Amit Bisht were sent off by the referee for getting involved in a fight.
At the other end it was some fine defending from Sam Palha, skipper Amit Bisht along with keeper Wasim Khan that restricted Sporting strikers Ronald Martins and Chandan Gawas from doing any damage. In the entire first session, Sporting had just one good attempt at the rival goal where a strong header from Ronald Martins struck the horizontal bar.
On crossing over, the Sporting unit showed more promise coming from the dressing room, wherein in the very first minute, Alston Camotio's corner was fisted away to safety by Churchill keeper
Wasim Khan.
Finally after much probing, Sporting colts shot into the lead through some individual brilliance from substitute Trijoy Dias, 1-0. The Flaming Oranje came close to increasing their lead in the 75th minute, but a smart cross by Alston Camotio at the far post saw Myron Fernandes a bit too late to finish. Just a minute before the final whistle, Sporting's Trijoy Dias and Churchill Brothers' Amit Bisht were sent off by the referee for getting involved in a fight.
