20 October 2008

Governor's Gold Cup: Tata Thrash DKKKS Bangladesh

Tata Football Academy entered the semi finals of the Governor's Gold Cup in style, thrashing Bangladesh Club DKKKS 4-0...

In a thumping win, Tata Football Academy (TFA) thrashed a listless Bangladesh club, 4-0 in today's match to storm into the semis of the 30th All India Governor's Gold Cup being played here at Paljor Stadium.

Goals from Jagtar Singh, Gurjindar Kumar, Niroshan Mani and Robin Singh completed the rout. TFA completely dominated the game from the word go and scored early in the 19th minute against DKKKS, the Bangladesh club due to the misadventure on the part of its goalkeeper, Aminur Islam.

The Bangladesh side goalkeeper rushed well outside his box to clear a long ball but was beaten to it by TFA player Jaganath Saha who passed the ball to his striker Jagtar Singh. Even then the goal could have been prevented as Singh's weak shot had been covered by the Bangladesh defender Narayan Paul. However, Paul managed to kick only air when he tried to stop the ball which rolled into the net. The game ended at 1-0 at the interval.

After the break, TFA players continued from where they left the match in the first half and sprayed a flurry of attempts in the Bangladesh goal. They were rewarded in the 66th minute with a fine shot by Gurjindar Singh. Any distant attempts of Bangladesh club coming back to the game was killed in the 74th minute when TFA substitute Nirosh Mani slammed home the third goal on a rebound.

Robin Singh completed the rout when playmaker Subodh Kumar backheeled the ball into his path to poke home the fourth goal of the match for TFA.

With this win, TFA became the second team to clinch a berth in the last 4 along with Army XI.

Source:Goal.com