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West Bengal thrashes Kerala 5-0 to emerge champion in men’s football at the 36th National Games. Rabi Hansda, Narahari (hat-trick), and Amit Chakrabarty score the goals for West Bengal.
One substitution by Bengal. Sougoto Hansda comes onto the pitch in place of Surojit Hansda.
Four minutes have been added to the match. West Bengal 5-0 Kerala.
Goal! Narahari’s pass from the right flank finds Amit Chakrabarty in the Kerala box. He beats an onrushing Mithun with a right-footed shot to score the goal. West Bengal 5-0 Kerala.
Kerala controls the possession but fails to make an impact in the Bengal box. P.V. Vishnu is behind a moving ball but Raja Burman grabs it before he could attempt a kick.
The referee announces a drink break. 13 minutes remaining to full-time.
Bengal uses its first substitutions. Souvik and Rakesh are in.
Bengal wins possession after quite some time. Kerala tries to take the attack to the opposition from the right but a timely intervention from the Bengal defence sees the scoreline unchanged.
Yellow card for Surajit. He fouls on K. Ramadasan. Ramadasan takes the free kick, but clearance by Bengal. No chance for Kerala.
One substitution by Kerala. Defender Jon Paul replaces forward Bujair in an attempt to strengthen the defence.
Goal! Bengal makes it 4-0 against Kerala as play resumes in the second half. Bengal captain Narahari receives a cross just before the Kerala goalkeeper and places the ball back into the net with a smooth header. With this goal, he notches up a hat-trick.
Bengal leads Kerala by three goals at half time.
Chance for Bengal. Surajit’s cross in the box, Kerala defender Sanju fails to clear, and Narahari places the ball in the Kerala goal with a push through the right post. A brace for Narahari. Bengal takes a 4-0 lead in the final.
Free kick for Kerala. Bengal’s Amit receives a yellow card for his physical charge on K. Ramadasan.
Chance for Kerala. A couple of passes between them, but Bengal intercepts the attack. West Bengal 2-0 Kerala.
Save! Kerala goalkeeper Mithun makes a stunning save. Rabi receives a cross in the box and puts his head on the ball. No goal.
Free kick for Bengal. Kerala’s Christy Davis receives a yellow card for his foul on Bengal’s Abhishek. Abhishek takes the free kick. Clearance from Kerala. West Bengal 2-0 Kerala.
Chance for Kerala. Nijo rushes with the ball and sends a cross. Bengal defender Abhishek clears the danger.
Chance for Bengal. Rabi dribbles past two Kerala players and takes a right-footed shot but the ball goes out of play near the right post.
Free kick for Bengal. Narahari takes the shot. It hits Kerala defenders. But he scores from the rebound. Narahari sends the ball back into the net with a stunning right-footed kick. West Bengal 2-0 Kerala.
Bengal on attack. Couple of passes between Basudeb and Toton in the midfield. Clearance from Kerala.
Kerala on attack. Nijo Gilbert cruises on the right flank, but good defending by Toton. He clears the danger.
Throw in for Kerala. Referee signals foul. Raja Burman takes goal kick.
Goal kick for Kerala. Fight for the ball on the left flank. Miss pass from Bengal, ball goes out of play.
Raja Burman saves a shot by Kerala’s Vignesh. Kerala has been keeping West Bengal’s defence busy. Three players in the box. Centre by Kerala but attempts to score from a volley proves costly. West Bengal 1-0 Kerala.
First half begins. Centre from Deepak, chance for Bengal. Clearance from Kerala. West Bengal 1-0 Kerala
This is a repeat of this year’s Santosh Trophy when both Kerala and West Bengal played the final. On that occasion, Kerala beat West Bengal in the penalty shootout to emerge national champion.
West Bengal and Kerala are set to fight for the men’s football gold medal at EKA Arena in Ahmedabad.
Women’s middleweight category boxing semifinals - Assam’s Lovlina Borgohain beats Gujarat’s Ruchita in a unanimous decision and reaches final. The result is: 5-0.
Lovlina Borgohain of Assam will shortly be in action against Gujarat’s Ruchita in women’s middleweight category boxing.
Men’s welterweight boxing semifinals - Services’ Akash upsets Shiva Thapa of Assam and enters final with a 3-2 win.
Assam’s Shiva Thapa is currently in action against Services’ Akash in men’s welterweight boxing semifinal.
Women’s lightweight boxing semifinals - Shimranjit Kaur of Punjab beats Assam’s Pwilao Basumatary 5-0 to enter the final.
- Karnataka beats Uttar Pradesh in the sudden death and wins the men’s hockey gold medal.
- Karnataka goalkeeper Jagdeep Dayal saves UP’s effort. Karnataka now gets a penalty stroke as the UP goalkeeper fouls on the former’s player. Rahil Hussain makes no mistakes and scores. Karnataka wins the match.
- This time UP fails to score. Karnataka takes a 4-3 lead. Sumeeth helps UP to level the score. The match will now head to sudden death.
- Magnificent save by UP goalkeeper Prashant Kumar. S.V. Sunil fails to score.
- SHOOTOUT BEGINS. Karnataka takes a 2-1 lead. Rahul Kumar makes it 2-2 for UP.
- FULL-TIME. Karnataka 2-2 Uttar Pradesh. Shootout will decide the champion.
- Free hit for UP. Long corner for Karnataka. Uttar Pradesh intercepts Karnataka’s attack.
- Karnataka makes a comeback in the match and levels the score 2-2. Chandan Singh of UP suffers a nasty blow. The referee whistles for a time out.
- PC for Karnataka. The team joins a huddle. S.V. Sunil injects the ball into the box. UP clears the danger. UP 2-1 Karnataka.
- Karnataka gets two consecutive penalty corners. The UP goalkeeper makes an outstanding save. S.V. Sunil takes the second PC, but again UP players clear the danger. UP 2-1 Karnataka. Eight minutes remaining in the final.
- Penalty corner for UP. Karnataka players challenge the referee’s decision. Meanwhile, UP players are asking for a penalty stroke. Raju Paul injects the ball into the D box. Karnataka clears the danger but another chance for UP. UP scores and takes 2-1 lead over Karnataka.
- GOAL! UP on attack. Sumeeth touches the rushing ball and his shot deflects off the Karnataka player’s stick and goes into the net. Karnataka 1-1 UP.
- UP takes possession but Karnataka intercepts at the halfway mark. UP again takes the ball away from Karnataka but fails to make any impact. The referee signals the end of the third quarter. Karnataka 1-0 UP.
- Penalty corner to Karnataka. It goes on the attack in the UP box before the latter’s defender sends the ball out of play. Players fumble and Somaya fails to attempt the shot in the D box. The UP goalkeeper jumps on the ball and makes a save.
- Free hit is given to Karnataka as one of its players suffers an injury in its half.
- The second half begins. Karnataka 1 - 0 Uttar Pradesh
- At half- time, Karnataka scored the sole goal with Sheshe Gowda slap pass the ball to the opposition’s D, making it easy for Sunil to score.
- UP gets a green card and will have to defend the rest of the first half with just 10 players.
- Seems like UP is missing their star player Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, who is currently not on the field.
- PC for UP, but it turns into a counter-attack for Karnataka. UP’s goalkeeper comes out of the line, however, Sunil deflects and Karnataka score the matches first goal.
- Free hit given to K’taka as UP fails to convert its PC to goal.
- Penalty corner no. 4 for UP as it touches the leg of K’taka’s players.
- K’taka takes consecutive penalty corners, but UP stops it and pushed the ball away from the D.
- Karnataka gets its second penalty corner!
- The two teams exchanges ball possession, but neither teams are able to score goals in the first quarter.
- UP gets green card. 10 players for two minutes.
- IT’S KARNATAKA VS UTTAR PRADESH IN THE MEN’S HOCKEY GOLD MEDAL MATCH!
Featherweight- Mohemmed Hussam Uddin from Services defeats Lallawmawma of Mizoram 5-0
Flyweight- Minakshi of Haryana wins 5-0 against Uttar Pradesh’s Rashi Sharma
Ankit will take on Avinash in the men’s flyweight finals.
Avinash Chandel of Himachal defeats Tripura’s Karan Rupini 5-0
Ankit of Haryana defeats Sparsh Kumar of Punjab 5-0
- Haryana defends it brilliantly and WINS WOMEN’S HOCKEY GOLD!
- Haryana does not make it through. However, Punjab gets a PC with just one minute remaining
- Haryana takes its ninth penalty corner with just two minutes remaining!
- Lalremsiami comes in. Haryana with only 10 plyers due to a green card.
- Green card shown to Punjab, only 10 players for Punjab.
- Haryana gets its eight penalty corner. But Yogita Bali saves two rebounds.
- Punjab manages to save the Haryana’s attack with Yogita Bali saving yet again.
- Lalremsiami fails to deflect the ball in PC even after she was behind Savita, who had dived her way to stop the ball and ball goes wide.
- Lalremsiami gets a PC for Punjab.
- Sharmila Devi attacks but she doesn’t find anyone there and Haryana gives away a chance to score a goal.
- Lalremsiami attacks, but Haryana defends with ease.
- Rani Rampal wobbles and Jyoti fails to deflect.
- Haryana counter-attacks and gets a penalty corner!
- Punjab gets a PC, but Gurjit Kaur isn’t able to drag flick properly
- Yogita saves the ball as Punjab gets the ball.
- Monika out for five minutes due to the yellow card. Haryana will field 10 players.
- Yogita Bali is back. Yellow card is shown to Haryana after they almost made the second goal.
- At half-time, Haryana leads 1-0 against Punjab!
- Rani Rampal strikes for Haryana as she deflects a cross that came to her. Was it the change of goalkeeper or was it the lack of marking on Punjab’s part?
- Punjab gets lucky as Bali comes out of her position but Rampal send it wide. Bali limps out of the field due to an injury. Simran Chopda comes in her place.
- Savita saves Punjab counter-attack.
- Rani Rampal pushes it wide. It’s clear that Haryana is dependent on Rampal for goal scoring.
- Will Haryana convert its sixth PC?
- Yet another PC, a fake, a try to rebound but Yogita saves it and Gurjit Kaur takes the ball out off Punjab’s D.
- Full press by the Haryana team as both teams fight it out for ball possession.
- Another PC for Haryana, fails to make use of it.
- PC for Haryana, but there was a wobble in the D and Punjab takes advantage.
- Haryana tries to counter attack, but Yogita Bali saves two consecutive attempts to shoot.
- Another PC for Punjab as a violation by Haryana players, but a brilliant save by Savita Punia, the keeper for Haryana and Indian senior team.
- Punjab gets a Penalty Corner, Gurjit Kaur, the Indian senior team drag flicker was unable to get through due to Monika who defends it on the left flank.
- No goals scored in the first quarter of the game, will it be shoot out at the end of the fourth quarter?
- ITS HARYANA VS PUNJAB IN THE WOMEN’S HOCKEY GOLD MEDAL MATCH!
Kerala meets West Bengal in the women’s volleyball finals, defeats Himachal Pradesh 25-20, 25-14, 25-19.
Kerala takes the second set as well and leads 2-0
Kerala wins the first set, leads second set 17-10.
Kerala takes on Himachal Pradesh in the second semis
West Bengal eases to the finals 25-18 winning 3-0 against Rajasthan!
WB back with the lead. Three point advantage.
Back to back points for Rajasthan in the third set.
West Bengal takes on Rajasthan and takes a two set lead. 25-14, 25-21.
- Haryana fails two attempts as Maharashtra wins shoot out 3-2 and bronze medal!
- Haryana and Maharashtra get one each.
- Devendra Walmiki scores for Maharashtra
- Haryana scores first in shootout.
- Hooter sounds and it’s shoot out time!
- Haryana gets a penalty corner with 41 seconds remaining, can they make it?
- Gurmukh Singh gets a yellow card for the tackle, he fights it off with the referee and a five minute suspension for the Haryana captain.
- Deepak from Haryana scores an equaliser by defeating the goalkeeper dribbling past three defenders.
- Maharashtra in lead 2-1 as they come from behind to score a goal from a very difficult angle via a rebound!
- Yuvraj Walmiki and his brother Devendra Walmiki’s coordination helps Maharashtra to score a goal. Maharashtra restores parity.
- They fail to score a goal as the two teams yet again try and attack the other teams D after the third quarter.
- Vikrant, the Haryana ‘keeper makes a brilliant save. Haryana gets ball possession and gets a PC.
- Immediately Maharashtra takes advantage of the suspension and have a penalty corner.
- Two minutes suspension for Haryana’s with a green card for Mehakdeep Singh due to a rough tackle.
- Both Maharashtra and Haryana exchange ball possessions in the third quarter, but are unable to score goals.
- PC for Maharashtra. Can they equal the score?
- At half-time, Haryana still leads 1-0 over Maharashtra.
- After the first quarter, Haryana leads 1-0 with a goal on penalty corner rebound.
- Penalty Corner for Haryana It hits the foot of the Maharashtra’s defender. PC continues and Haryana gets a goal on rebound by Abhimanyu.
- It’s Maharashtra vs Haryana in the men’s hockey bronze medal match.
AND KARNATAKA ARE UNBLE TO SCORE EVEN IN THE SECOND HALF. AND THE EXTRA TIME IS DONE- SERVICES WINS MEN’S FOOTBALL BRONZE MEDAL
At the 56th minute, Liton Shil of Services without hesitating scores the fourth goal onto the right side of the goalkeeper.
At half- time Services still lead 3-0 with Sunil B scoring the first goal in the second minute, Suresh Meitei adding to the tally five minutes later and Sreyas G adding another goal in the 14th minute.
Services cores its third goal and Karnataka looks hapless at this point.
Within just six minutes of play, Services gets two goals!
Services scores the first goal against Karnataka and leads 1-0
Tamil Nadu bags gold with a time of 1:59:00, Gujarat takes silver, while Manipur clinches bronze in the mixed triathlon finals. This mixed triathlon relay consists of 250m swim, 7.8km Bike and 2.6Km Run.
- And the hooter rings.. .MADHYA PRADESH WINS WOMEN’S HOCKEY BRONZE!
- Deflection for Jharkhand but MP still has a three goal lead.
- Sadhana Sengar gets a deflection of Aishwarya’s shot and MP is five goals up!
- Aishwarya gets a hat-trick as she gets one in between the keeper’s legs to get MP’s fourth goal.
- Penalty Corner for Jharkhand but MP manages to save it.
- Penalty stroke for Madhya Pradesh and Aishwarya Chavan gets one. Madhya Pradesh leads 3-1.
- This time Jharkhand hits a tomahawk but MP’s goalkeeper saves it. However, Jharkhand gets one in via rebound but still trails 1-2.
- Tomahawk by Madhya Pradesh but saved by Jharkhand ‘keeper.
- At half-time, Madhya Pradesh leads 2-0 with both goals being scored off deflection.
- Defensive approach by MP on their D proves to be bad for Jharkhand as they miss several back to back attempts of scoring goals.
- MP defense looks good, however, Jharkhand manages to sneak past and earns a penalty corner.
- Madhya Pradesh putting pressure on the Jharkhand forwards as the ball just misses the goal post and goes wide off right.
- Madhya Pradesh attacks, but misses.
- Aishwarya Chavan deflects the ball into the goal post and Madhya Pradesh gets its first goal.
- Madhya Pradesh takes an early lead with two goals in the first quarter.
Here’s what happened yesterday (October 10)- Y B Sarangi, MR Praveen Chandran
BOXING
Sumit Kundu enters semifinals, national champion Anjali Tushir bows out
Thailand Open gold medallist Sumit Kundu’s show of power tamed South Asian Games gold medallist Ankit Khatana in a men’s 75kg quarterfinal bout at the boxing arena of the National Games here on Monday.
Sumit, who had a first round bye, recorded an impressive 4-0 win to set up a semifinal date with Nikhil Dubey of Maharashtra.
Amid trading of blows, Sumit stayed ahead by landing fast hands on Ankit.
Ankit, who displayed some fine counters, lowered his guard and invited Sumit for more exchanges in the third round, but the Services boxer stayed safe and emerged as the winner.
National champion Sachin Kumar quelled a strong challenge from taller Punjab youngster Kartik to post a 5-0 win in an 80kg bout.
Asian champion Sanjeet’s performance was a masterclass for his rival Harsh Kaushik in a 92kg bout.
Despite running high fever, Worlds bronze medallist Jamuna Boro managed her bout well to box from a long range and script a 5-0 win in a women’s 57kg contest.
The women’s 66kg weight saw the fall of some achievers. World youth bronze medallist Astha Pahwa, who served two standing counts, was beaten 5-0 by Manipur’s Alena Thounaojam.
National champion Anjali Tushir was ousted by Elorda Cup bronze medallist Lalita with a 5-0 verdict.
However, World youth gold medallist Ankushita Boro sailed into the last-four.
IMPORTANT RESULTS (QUARTERFINALS)
HOCKEY
Uttar Pradesh survives Maharashtra fightback to enter final, set to meet Karnataka
Uttar Pradesh survived a gallant comeback from Maharashtra and prevailed 6-5 in the penalty shootout to enter the men’s hockey final of the 36th National Games at the Dhyanchand Hockey stadium here on Monday. It will meet Karnataka, which dumped national champion Haryana 3-1, in the title clash.
Sitting pretty with a cushion of a three-goal lead in the third quarter, Uttar Pradesh saw Maharashtra claw back and level the scores when five minutes remained for the final hooter.
In the shootout, Maharashtra trailed UP 0-2 but managed to level the scores and it boiled down to the last set of penalty strokes. Uttar Pradesh’s Lalit Kumar Upadhyay converted his attempt while UP goalkeeper Prashant Kumar fouled attacker Venkatesh Kenche and conceded a penalty stroke. However, Prashant made amends by saving the penalty stroke taken by Pratap Shinde.
Maharashtra did all the hard work in the first quarter but failed to break the UP defence. UP relied more on counter-attacks and scored against the run of play in the 22nd minute when Sumit found space inside the box and scored with a reverse flick from close. The goal transformed the UP side which settled down to play with more confidence. A penalty corner variation saw UP increase the lead in the 30th minute through Sunil Yadav. Manish Yadav’s drag flick put UP 3-0 ahead in the 37th minute.
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UP lowered its guard a bit and Maharashtra seized the opportunity to launch a fight back. Aniket Gaurav scored twice (40th and 47th minutes) in the space of seven minutes to start the revival. As UP played for time, Maharashtra pressed hard for the equaliser.
The relentless pressure exerted by Maharashtra forwards finally yielded the third goal when Sayyad Niyaz Rahim scored off a quick counterattack to push the match into penalties.
In the other semifinal, Haryana was playing catch up after it conceded an early goal. A well executed penalty corner drill saw Abharan Sudev deflect the ball in from close for the opening goal in the fourth minute. Karnataka unsettled the Haryana defence with precise moves mostly from the right flank. But Haryana survived and scored the equaliser through a fast counter-attack when Kohinoor Preet Singh slotted in in the 17 th minute.
Karnataka played with more freedom in the second half and went ahead in the 47 th minute when Nikkin Thimmaiah drilled a shot from inside the D. Four minutes later, another quick move initiated by the hardworking Sunil left the Haryana defence in tatters and Harish Mutagar tapped in to complete a fine win.
The result
FOOTBALL
Manipur beats Odisha 2-0 to win women’s title
Two first-half goals helped Manipur beat Odisha 2-0 in the final and retain the women’s football title in the National Games at the Eka Arena Transstadia in Ahmedabad on Monday.
Manipur captain and ace India forward N. Bala Devi drew first blood in the 10th minute, while international N. Ratanbala Devi doubled the lead in the 36th minute for the winning side.
Coached by the legendary Oinam Bembem Devi, Manipur applied pressure from the beginning with Bala Devi leading the attack.
Goalkeeper Sandipta Das guarded the Odisha post confidently until Bala Devi found the mark with a shot from inside the box.
Manipur continued to test the Odisha defence and got the second goal when Ratanbala, who plays for Gokulam Kerala in the Indian Women’s League, scored through a grounder from a distance.
Odisha, coached by former Mohun Bagan player Crispin Chettri, showed greater resolve and cohesion after the change of ends. It produced some long rangers and earned a few corners, but the Manisa Panna-led side could not open its account.
Odisha searched for goals till late in the match with Pyari Xaxa and substitute Satyabati Khadia working hard upfront. But they could not stop Manipur from securing the gold medal.
Meanwhile, in the bronze medal playoff, Tamil Nadu beat Assam 5-1.
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