Durand Cup football semi-finals Saturday
Nov 25, 2006 - 1:08:54 AM
, Reviewed by: Priya Saxena
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Three minutes later, Dempo equalised through Isfaq Ahmed.
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By RxPG News Service,
[RxPG] New Delhi, Nov 24 - Former champions Mohun Bagan will play Dempo Sports Club and Sporting Clube de Goa will clash with JCT Mills of Phagwara in the semi-finals of the 119th Osian's Durand Cup football tournament here Saturday.
In the last quarter-final league match Friday, defending champions Army XI defeated East Bengal 2-1. Both teams were out of the tournament even before this game.
In the other match, Dempo Sports Club and JCT Phagwara played out a 1-1 draw.
The Army XI-East Bengal encounter was just a formality with both teams having missed out on semi-final berths. Vijay Thapa fired the first goal for the Army XI and Alvito D'Cunha of East Bengal levelled the scores in the 54th minute.
Thapa scored his second goal of the match in the 68th minute to help the Army XI to a consolation win.
Earlier, in the first match of the day, both Dempo Sports Club and JCT Phagwara failed to score in the first hour, before Mandeep Singh of JCT broke the stalemate with a fine goal in the 64th minute.
Three minutes later, Dempo equalised through Isfaq Ahmed.
The Mohun Bagan-Dempo semi-final will be played at 12 noon, while the Sporting Clube de Goa-JCT match will take place at 3 p.m.
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