Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, November 19 2009:
The Tiddim Road Unique Gamy Players Union(TRUGP), Nambol held TRAU, Kwakeithel draw with scores 1-1 in today's first match of the ongoing 4th Edition of the Manipur State League organised by the All Manipur Football Association (AMFA) at Mapal Kangjeibung, Imphal.
It was a real tough match between the two teams, each of them trying to dominate over one another.
Players of both teams played the match with full determination to win.
As they played the match with almost equal skills and tactics, they found it hard to dominate over one another.
TRAU took the first lead in the 7th minute of the match with a goal of L Bikram.
With one goal ahead of them, players of TRUGPU tried hard to equalise the goal.
They equalised the score after a hard effort in the 35th minute of the match.
L Gouro scored the equaliser goal of TRUGPU.
The second match was played between NEROCA, Sangakpham and ESU, Wangkhei.
NEROCA defeated goalless ESU with two goals.
Both teams displayed a tough fight against one another throughout the match.
However lack of better coordination among the players of ESU in the last few minutes resulted to their loss.
The first half concluded into a goalless tie.
But in the second half, players of NEROCA began to dominate over the players of ESU and scored their first goal in the 61st minute of the match.
It was scored by H Chakravorti from a ball passed to him by his teammate Ng Tomarjit.
Kh Satish scored the second goal in the 81st minute of the match.
Earlier in the match played at Khuman Lampak Practice Ground, SSU beat USA 3-1 in a keenly contested match.
Both teams played the match with a full determination to win.
SSU took the first lead in the 15th minute of the match with a goal of Md Shahidur Rehman.
But it was soon equalised by M Robinson of USA in the 17th minute.
The second goal of SSU scored by SSU in the 41st minute of the match again took SSU in the lead.
As the match progress towards its end, Ng Jitkumar of SSU scored one goal against USA in the 80th minute of the match and locked the fate of the match.