West Bengal grabbed its possibilities to clean Manipur 3-0 and entered the ultimate of the Santosh Trophy Nationwide soccer championship on the Payyanad stadium right here on Friday.
Sujith Singh (3), Fardin Ali Molla (7) and Dilip Orawan (73) scored for Bengal which is able to meet host Kerala within the last.
West Bengal struck twice in house of 4 minutes within the first half to take the wind out of Manipur’s sails. Sujith Singh opened the scoring within the third minute with a speculative 25-yard shot which bounced awkwardly in entrance of a diving Manipur goalkeeper Chingkhei Meitei and went in.
Meitei’s poor anticipation paved the best way for the second Bengal purpose within the seventh minute. The goalkeeper got here out of his guard when a protracted ball was performed into the Manipur penalty field. However the keeper failed to collect the ball which got here to Fardin Ali Molla, who managed it and shimmied previous two defenders to stab residence from the highest of the field.
Manipur substituted Meitei with Abujar within the twenty second minute and it regrouped within the center. The Bengal purpose withstood a late surge from Manipur within the first half. Goalkeeper Priyant kumar was once more his crew’s saviour as he blocked a pointy probability from Sudhir Laitonjam within the thirty second minute. Manipur threatened once more however the Bengal defence held out to protect its lead.
Manipur fired on all cylinders within the second half however Bengal’s defence held agency and allowed just a few balls to succeed in goalkeeper Priyant. Nonetheless, a quick counterattack by Manipur within the sixty fifth minute break up the defence however striker Somishan Shirak wasted his crew’s finest probability as he solely managed a feeble shot which was saved by Priyant Kumar.
A fortuitous purpose by Dilip Orwan within the 73rd minute killed the competition. Seeing goalkeeper Abujar straying off his line Dilip hoisted a protracted ball in direction of the Manipur purpose from the suitable flank. The ball’s trajectory beat Abujar’s determined try and tip it over and it went in from close to publish.
The end result: West Bengal 2 (Sujith Singh 3, Fardin Ali Molla 7, Dilip Orawan 73) bt Manipur 0.
