I-LEAGUE : East Bengal home win against Air India
02.01.2012 : MRINAL KANTI NATH...KFC... | www.kolkatafootball.com HOME PAGE
Kingfisher East Bengal got their year off to a great start as they defeated Air India 2-1 in the 13th round of the I League encounter played at the Yuba Bharati Krinangan, Kolkata on Monday. Penn Orji turned out to be the savior for Kingfisher East Bengal scoring a brace in the 25th and 74th minute after Air India equalised early in the second half through Henry Ezeh in the 51st minute.
Air India started the match without Sandesh Gadkari, Mohammed Shafi and Kali Aluadeen while East Bengal missed the services of Mehtab Hussain ruled out due to suspensions. East Bengal dominated early on in the match with Robin Singh hitting the post of a header in the 13th minute. Thereafter, East Bengal pressed further towards the Air India goal and eventually Penn Orji scored the first goal for Red & Gold placing the ball over the goalkeeper after defender Pratik Chowdhury failed to clear the ball.
In the 34th minute Robin Singh struck the post a second time off a flick and the score stayed 1-0 till half time.
However,in the 51st minute Air India equalised when Henry Ezeh scored off a cross. Just when it looked like the match would end in a tie Penn Orji scored a second goal off a powerful strike from a Sanju Pradhan pass. East Bengal held on the lead for rest of the match to register the victory against Air India. (.. AIFF)
LIVE MATCH COMMENTARY - MRINAL KANTI NATH
02.01.2012 :East Bengal 2 - 1 Air India ( YBK - FT )
KEB : (Penn 25' and 74')
AIR : (Henry 52')
KEB : Gurpreet, Saikat (Paite 62'), Nirmal, Okpara, Soumik, Sonju (Vashum 90+3), Sushant, Penn, Khabra, Robin (Baljit 45+3), Tolgey.
AIR : Harshad, Bijoy, Collin, Tamba, Ramandip, Soccor (Henry 46'), Omi (Allan 65'), Royston (Sandeep 79'), Manandeep, Pratik, Rahul.
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MATCH STATS
FOULS - KEB 12 : 15 AIR
CORNER - KEB 7: 1 AIR
SHOT ON TARGET - KEB 10: 4 AIR
Y/CARD - KEB 1 : 0 AIR
OFFSIDE - KEB 7 : 1 AIR.
FULL TIME: East Bengal 2-1 Air India
90+3: Vashum in Sonju out.
3 minutes injury time.
89: Henry header from long throw, ball goes over crossbar.
88: Long ball towards Pratik, but poor trapping, ball goes out.
87: EB attack, Tamba clears.
86: Henry pulls Paite from behind, free kick to EB near center circle.
83: Henry attack, Okpara clears.
82: Khabra tripped near touch line in right side.
81: Air India attack, cross from left, straight to Gurpreet.
79: Sandeep Sangha in Royston D'souza out.
78: Sonju corner, headed out.
78: Good tackle by Tamba, corner for EB.
77: Sonju good run, shot, goes out.
76: Brilliant tackle by Tamba, denies Tolgay from taking a shot, otherwise could have been a sure goal for East Bengal.
75: Sonju Pradhan shown yellow card.
74: The best player of today's match has scored both the goals for East Bengal.
74: Sonju's pass, Penn powerful shot, bulges the net.
74: GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, Penn scores.
73: Penn tripped outside Air India box.
72: Henry shot straight to Gurpreet.
71: Sonju through, Tolgey goes past goalkeeper but takes a lot of time to take the shot, ball cleared.
70: Long throw by Rahul, ball goes out of Gurpreet's hand, Nirmal clears, Abranches shot over.
70: Good attack by Air India, ball cleared by Soumik.
67: Penn through, good clearance by Tamba.
66: Baljit once again offside.
65: Allan in Omi out.
64: Rahul corner, Penn clears the ball.
63: Corner to Air India.
62: Paite in Saikat out.
62: Tolgey poor cross, ball cleared.
61: Through towards Baljit who was offside.
59: Penn flick went to Tolgey whose header was saved by Harshad.
59: Brilliant save by Harshad by throwing his body to left.
58: Ball cleared from corner.
58: Penn through towards Sonju. With goalkeeper out of position, ball deflects of a defender's leg for corner in favour of East Bengal
57: Henry shot way over cross bar, he was unmarked inside EB box.
56: Soumik cross, Harshad collects.
55: Brilliant clearance by Tamba before Baljit could get to the ball from Tolgey's pass in Air India box.
54: Penn through towards right flank, Air India midfield clears the ball.
52: Bijay cross, Henry header goes in. Surprisingly, Henry was kept in reserve bench.
52: GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, Henry scores.
51: Once more East Bengal came close to scoring. Sonju cross, ball headed out.
50: Tolgey cross towards Baljit, cleared by Ramandip for corner.
49: Manandeep tripped by Sushant Mathew.
49: Penn through, Soumik to Tolgey inside AI box, ball cleared.
47: Air India attack but good clearance by Okpara.
46: Henry in Soccor out.
46: Match starts.
HALF TIME: East Bengal leading 1-0
45+3: Baljit Sahni in Robin Singh out.
3 minutes injury time
44: Bijoy through pass towards Manandeep, cleared by Okpara.
42: Soumik to Tolgey, long ranger, ball goes out.
42: Short corner, Tolgey to Soumik, cross, another corner.
41: Another corner to East Bengal.
40: Bijay Basfore cross, Gurpreet collects.
38: Air India attack, Rahul offside.
37: Robin long ranger, Harshad collects.
36: Sonju corner, ball cleared.
35: East Bengal playing much better football today and completely dominating the match.
34: 2nd time post has denied Robin today, previously his header had hit crossbar.
34: Soumik cross from left, Robin flick hits post and goes out.
33: Sonju cross, Harshad collects the ball.
32: Omi long ranger shot, goes out.
31: Abranches free kick straight to Gurpreet.
30: AIR INDIA NOT GETTING SERVICE OF 3 PLAYERS: SANDESH GADKARI, MOHAMMED SHAFI, KALI ALAUDEEN WHILE EAST BENGAL NOT GETTING SERVICE OF MEHTAB HUSSAIN. ALL SERVING 1 MATCH SUSPENSION.
28: Nothing results from free kick.
27: Another defensive lapse. Pratik header hits Harshad's hand outside Air India box, free kick to East Bengal, but Harshad should have been booked for handling the ball outside box.
25: Pratik Chowdhury fails to clear the ball, Penn nicely put the ball inside goal over goalkeeper's head.
25: GOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, Penn scores.
23: Tamba shown yellow card.
21: East Bengal completely dominating the match.
20: Penn to Tolgey, his shot hits defender of Air India.
19: Sonju cross, cleared by Tamba.
18: Sonju brilliant through pass to Penn, but instead of taking a shot himself, he prefers to cross the ball, ball cleared.
17: Air India attack, Okpara makes a good clearance.
16: Good shot from Tamba, grounder right footed shot, ball goes out.
15: Free kick to Air India just outside EB box, the way Nirmal put his foot out, could have been yellow card, but referee does not book Nirmal.
14: East Bengal attack down left flank, Tolgey shot, straight to goalkeeper.
13: Soumik takes a short corner, cross, Robin header, hits crossbar.
12: Penn through pass, Sonju cross from right, Tolgey miscues the header, ball hits Ramandip's head and almost goes in, could have been sameside goal, Harshad makes a good fist, corner to EB.
11: Good pass to Soumik in left flank, linesman raise flag for offside, but replay shows it was not offside.
10: Penn to Tolgey in AI box, but ball cleared.
10: Nirmal clears, almost caused problem as it hit Air India player, but Gurpreet collects the ball.
9: Khabra cross from left, Harshad saves.
8: Free kick to East Bengal near center circle.
7: Air India attack, long cross from right, Gurwinder clears, Soccor long ranger shot, way over crossbar.
6: Through pass by Sonju towards Tolgey, cleared.
4: Penn great run, pass to Robin, miss a very easy chance, left footed push past onrushing goalkeeper, just out.
2: Tolgey makes a nice move from right, but ball cleared.
1: Match starts.
STATS : East Bengal and Air India met 18 times so far in NFL/I-LEAGUE. East Bengal won 8 times and Air India won 4 times while 6 match drew, East Bengal scored 26 Goals while Air India scored 15 goals.
G Group Football Academy tie-up with Bharatiya Heilbronn
02.01.2012 : MRINAL KANTI NATH...KFC... | www.kolkatafootball.com HOME PAGE
Today G Group Football academy made a tie-up with German Organisation Bharatiya Heilbronn. In a press meet today at Hotel Sonnet at Salt Lake, Kolkata, they have annouced their upcoming programmes in the presence of Vice-president of AIFF, Mr.Subrata Dutta, Mr. Absar Sattar from Bharatiya Heilbronn, Germany, Mr. Raju Ghosh, M.D of G Group and TD of the said Academy Trijit Das and other higher officials of the Company.
G Group started to build their academy with trialling players from rural areas like Sundarbon, Khanakul, Ashoknagar, Basanti etc. since last month. TD Trijit Das told that their next trial will be held at Basirhat on 10th Jan, 2012. After this they have planned for a trial at Kolkata also.
Das added that the Academy currently selected 30 talented Boy from their different trial spots. Their Final selection will be held at Konnagar Olympic Institute, Konnagar, Hooghly, where the proposed Football Academy finally setteled their premises and venue instead of previous DYMM, Dhakhineswar. Among those players 18-20 best players will go to Germany for an exposure trip for a 2-3 weeks training along with minimum 7-8 practice matches.
Raju Ghosh, the Managing Director of G GROUPS of COMPANIES expressed that the inauguration of the Academy will be on 1st week of February. the selected Players are expected to go to Germany around June/July. They will stay there in Stuttgart under the guidance of one German coach of German Football Federation which will be intimated later.
Mr. Absar Sattar, the NRI from 1966, who hailed from Bagnan, Howrah, was a referee of German Bundeshliga in his time and associated with German football club HSV since 1989. Under his guidance Indian Sr. women Football team went to Germany and continued 15 days training which gave them 4th position in Asian Championship. Some famous coaches like Sabbir, Naim also got FIFA B license under his guidance. Mr. Sattar is a petron of BENGAL WOMEN FOOTBALLERS WELFARE ASSOCIATION, Kolkata.
AIFF Vice President Mr. Subrata Dutta also announced AIFF will lunch four academies in Bangalore, Mumbai, Noida and Kolkata (Pailan and also planned one more in Kalyani). In each of the academy their will be one foreign coach and all the academy will be under the guidance of Rob Baan. He added "West Bengal have enough talent in football. With the help of International standard training they can also shine in world football."
He also added that Rob Baan will visit all school level tournaments, rural tournaments to watch and collect the talents. AIFF is thiking about a U-19 tournament in Siliguri this March also and a U-13 tournament in January.
Being a true football lover MD of G Group Raju Ghosh intends to build this academy to see more players from Bengal in world wide. He also added that he build this academy not for any business purpose but to build good players who can shine in Indian football as well as World football. Ghosh added that, They have a long plan about their academy and trying to be a model of TFA and Pune FC. For the reason a team of G Group will visit the infrastructures and systems of TFA and Pune Academy soon to gather experience which will be benifited them.
I-LEAGUE : Pune FC has a test on hand.
02.01.2012 : PFC PRESS...KFC... | www.kolkatafootball.com HOME PAGE
Pune FC face a New Year test to get off to a positive start apart from logging a first-ever win over Kolkata's Mohun Bagan AC during their I-League game at the Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Mhalunge-Balewadi on Tuesday. To achieve that Pune FC has so far done well to pace their run by carrying forward a six-match unbeaten run, which by far turns out to be the second best by any team this season after Dempo SC's seven.
Fact is, when both Pune FC and Bagan get down to business in this first-leg concluding Round-13 encounter the battle will of two unbeaten teams! The visitors themselves have not blinked in five previous games. To the statistical mind, Bagan with Prasanta Banerjee as coach turns out to be the fifth coach for the Kolkata side to lead the side against Pune FC.
"It's a tough match," opines Pune FC Coach Derrick Pereira, who attributes his reading to Bagan sporting good back up players in their midst despite some exclusions from their side. Pune FC currently fifth on the league table with 19 points have faced Bagan five times before and two losses including one at home when the sides met for the first time in the city remain a memory that all at home will like to be wiped out.
"We are prepared and ready for them," the coach adds. "The players are eager and with opposition (Bagan) they are all motivated to put on a good show. "With a yield of 14 points over six matches, Pune FC Coach is unperturbed about the unexpected draw in the last game against Pailan Arrows. "It (the game) was in a a different situation and is not at all a worry. It is situational and these things happen off and on."
While no injuries just a few niggles, there it is likely Pune FC will not make changes unless necessary and depending on the think-tank. For Pune FC the game at home will be their seventh and enjoy remaining unbeaten in five games (three wins and 2 draws) apart from a loss, whereas Bagan so far in away matches have the similar wins but have 2 losses as well.
PFC Coach adds, "My advice to my players would be to stick with the basics. Keep it simple and concentrate on attacks. Cause playing to potential will get us to the goal. " With the home side hoping to take heart from the confidence they have the game will also serve as an interesting contest on several fronts.
Head-2-Head
21/03/11 IFS Mohun Bagan 2-0 Pune FC
12/02/11 IL Mohun Bagan 0-0 Pune FC
03/12/10 IL Pune FC 1-1 Mohun Bagan
10/03/10 IL Mohun Bagan 0-0 Pune FC
13/11/09 IL Pune FC 1-3 Mohun Bagan
