Thus, both Mehrajuddin Wadoo's Mohammedan Sporting and Caetano Pinho's former I-League champions finished on 26 points, but Aizawl got the seventh position because of a better head-to-head record. Their win over the Kolkata side on Republic Day in Aizawl proved to be decisive
The final score looks comfortable for coach Leimapokpam Nandakumar Singh, but the win did not come easy. His boys fell behind twice but came strongly on both occasions and turned the match on its head, scoring three goals within 13 minutes of each other.
The result also means that the gap between Mumbai Kenkre and NEROCA FC in the points table has been reduced by six points, enabling Mumbai Kenkre to keep alive their hopes of avoiding relegation in the I-League for another day. However, with only two games remaining, the Orange Brigade will
Mumbai Kenkre FC have found some late form in the I-League. They surprised everyone on January 23, beating table-toppers Sreenidi Deccan 2-1. Then they lost to Gokulam Kerala by a solitary goal and held the mighty RoundGlass Punjab to a 3-3 draw.
A contest between teams trying to avoid relegation is generally a cagey affair. So it was today, but NEROCA had the upper hand right through, as is shown by their 15 shots on goal, eight of which were on target. Had the Kenkre defence not played a near-perfect game, Khogen Singh's men would
RGPFC will have to play their best game against a strong side who will have the full backing of the home support in the football-crazy region of Kerala. The goal-scoring responsibilities of the team has been on Luka Majcen who has scored 9 goals already.
The match saw aggression from both sides as the referee issued six yellow cards in the first half and two yellow cards, one of them resulting in a send-off, in the second.
In their previous fixture, RoundGlass Punjab recorded a comfortable 2-0 victory against Real Kashmir to open up a four-point gap at the top. However, it was soon reduced to a single point after rivals Sreenidi Deccan's win over NEROCA. Mumbai Kenkre, on the other hand, narrowly went down 0-1
Sergio Mendigutxia once again made the difference for the defending champions with his 21st-minute goal. One of Vikas' innumerable overlaps right ended up with a beautiful floated cross to the far post. Mendigutxia snuck in to head it into the far corner of the net.
Following a home defeat against TRAU (1-2), Gokulam Kerala made a spirited comeback to record a 2-0 win against Real Kashmir in their first game at the EMS Stadium this season. The last two seasons' champions will be up against the Mumbai outfit at the same venue and would certainly be looki
The home side have gone through quite a few ups and downs in the month of January. While they started 2023 on a happy note defeating Kenkre FC by a solitary goal, the result was reversed in the next outing as Sreenidi Deccan lost by an identical margin against Rajasthan United. The defeat wa