ET Plus Report
Jammu, Mar 4: Vijay Club today blanked fighting Sainik Colony Football Club making it 2-0 to advance in the ongoing 3rd Rajiv Gandhi Gold Cup Football Tournament at GGM Science College ground, here.
Taking an early lead with Vishal Sodhi netting the ball for first goal in the very fifth minute, Vijay Club dominated the field afterwards.
Their strategy to continue with the attacking game yielded results and Vijay Club scored their second in the 22nd minute.
Tanpreet Singh Bagga made the second goal to help the side take invincible 2-0 lead in the first half of the play.
The second half of the play remained barren with Vijay Club slowed down the game and concentrated most on holding the opponent beyond the striking area.
The strategy was to keep the lead intact while maintaining a strong defence.
Meanwhile, in another match of the day, Young Rovers trounced Mussa Club by three goals to one. Varun Sharma scored the first goal for the winners in 10th minute, followed by two goals netted by Avinash in 34th and 61st minute of the match. From Mussa Club, Honey reduced the margin scoring in 59th minute.
Earlier, two yellow cards were shown to Ali Khan and Sahil Choudhary of the Young Rovers.
Today's matches were officiated by referees penal which included Hilal Ahmed, Suresh Gupta, Sohan Kumar, Kushey Kumar, Moon Stephen, Koushal Kumar, Vijay Kumar and Gagan Kumar.
FIXTURE: Power Development Corporation (PDC)-B shall take on Jammu United at 2 pm; NGR Club shall meet Jammu Sports at 4 pm tomorrow. |
