Led by Borja Herrera’s sensational hat-trick, FC Goa secured their first win of their Indian Tremendous League 2024-25 marketing campaign as they edged previous hosts East Bengal 3-2 in Kolkata on Friday. The guests began the sport brightly as they made some impactful strikes into the ultimate third. The likes of Dejan Drazic, Borja Herrera and Boris Singh made openings early on within the sport. Their persistent assaults have been quickly rewarded when Drazic’s cross from the left was parried away by East Bengal goalkeeper Debjit Majumder.
Nonetheless, the stray ball fell to Borja in area and the Spaniard slotted it into the online within the thirteenth minute.
The Gaurs saved troubling the East Bengal FC backline with their darting counter-attacks. In such an occasion, Boris Singh received possession from Hijazi Maher on the precise flank in a harmful space. The teenager got here up with a superbly weighted cut-back to seek out Borja within the field, who slammed it dwelling once more within the twentieth minute to double the lead for the guests.
Nonetheless, the Carles Cuadrat-coached crew retaliated properly with some offensive strikes.
They ultimately discovered a gap when Nim Dorja tripped Madih Talal within the penalty space, awarding the Purple and Gold Brigade a spot-kick and a chance to come back again within the sport.
Talal stepped up and calmly slotted it previous Laxmikant Kattimani to tug a objective again within the twenty ninth minute.
East Bengal FC began the second interval positively with some penetrative assaults. Nonetheless, the true opening fell to FC Goa, when Drazic and Rowllin Borges mixed and opened up the Purple and Gold defence. However the latter’s eventual effort was extensive astray. The Serbian got here up with one other effort from exterior the field however as soon as once more it went extensive.
FC Goa regained their two-goal benefit within the 71st minute when Udanta Singh received possession from Hijazi and squared it to Borja in area. The Spanish midfielder cruised his method into the penalty space earlier than rippling the again of the online to finish his hat-trick.
The guests have been in a spot of trouble when Carl McHugh acquired a second yellow card within the 81st minute. East Bengal FC made full use of their numeric benefit when David Lalhlansanga pulled one objective again within the eighty fifth minute after Kattimani parried a long-range effort from Anwar Ali straight on his path.
East Bengal saved pushing for the equaliser within the last minutes however FC Goa held fort and walked away with most factors.
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