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Jawaharlal Nehru - Fatorda Stadium
at Margao, Goa || Kickoff: 15.30 IST || Weather: Moderate

Referee
Rizwan ul-Haq (Delhi)

Assistent Referees
Komaleeswaran Shankar (Tamil Nadu), Mohammed Basheer (Kerala)

Fourth Officials
Shaji Kurian (Kerala)

0	:	0

GOALS
none

YELLOW CARDS
54' Majekodumni Bolaji (EB)

RED CARDS
none

MAN OF THE MATCH
Fabio dos Passos (Salgaocar)

STATS	SAL	EB
Total Shots	11	5
... on Target	1	0
... off Target	6	4
Headers on...	2	0
... off Target	3	1
Fouls	10	13
GK Saves	0	2
Corners	4	3
Offsides	4	5

SALGAOCAR SC

EAST BENGAL CLUB

2-Marcus Basumatari [GK]
12-Remus Gomes
8-Agnelo Colaco
16-Nicolau Colaco
17-TV Biju Kumar
19-S. Malswam Tulunga (66' #6)
25-Rocus Lamare [C]
31-Fabio dos Passos
29-Joe Rodrigues
7-Felix Chimaokwu
26-Milagres Gonsalves (52' #10)

Formation: 4-4-2

Substitutes:
1-Milagrio Medeira [GK]
6-Nicholas L Rodrigues (66' #19)
10-Boniface N. Ambani (52' #26) (87' #30)
15-Agnelo Barreto
18-Samson Fernandes
23-William Colaco
30-Francis Fernandes (87' #10)

24-Subrata Pal [GK]
19-Syed Rahim Nabi [C]
4-Julius Owino
3-Majekodumni Bolaji
5-Debabrata Roy
40-Vanlal Rova (65' #6)
23-Mehtab Hussain
9-Alvito D'Cunha (87' #26)
34-Sne. Chakraborty (90+3' #16)
10-Dipendu Biswas
30-Edmilson Marques Pardal

Formation: 4-4-2

Substitutes:
21-Abhra Mondal [GK]
6-Dipankar Roy (65' #40)
11-Hardip Singh Saini
12-Anupam Sarkar
16-Ratan Das (90+3' #34)
17-Surya Bikash Chakraborty
26-Mehraj din Wadoo (87' #9)



	It was a match-up of two former NFL champions but Salgaocar SC and East Bengal Club are far away from winning the inaugural I-league title. The match ended in a boring goalless draw at the Nehru Stadium, Margao not really helping the clubs in their fight for survival. Salgaocar remain bottom of the league with five points from 10 matches, while East Bengal moved out of the relegation zone with now eight points from as many matches. It was clear from the start that both sides would look to not concede a goal before venturing out to score. Salgaocar have conceeded 13 goals in their last three outings while East Bengal had lost their last fifth matches and had only scored a goal in their last four. Salgaocar still had managed eights goals in those three defeats, but coach Savio Medeira had to lay the focus on strengthening the defence as both coaches made some changes to their line-ups. Both sides tested each other initially with a lot of the action confined to the midfield. East Bengal got their first break in the 15th minute when Snehashis Chakraborty ventured into the box, but the winger was sandwiched by Remus Gomes and Nicolau Colaco and to the surprise of all the referee Rizwan ul-Haq didn't point to the penalty spot. On the other side Salgaocar had a good build-up only a couple of minutes later when Joe Rodrigues played a long cross from the left for Malswam Tulunga, but Mama's first touch denied him a shot on goal as Debabrata Roy could clear the ball for a corner. Thereafter the match once more was mainly confined to midfield action with Salgaocar showing some purpose but the longer the half lasted the more East Bengal tried to move up. The left flank was the more active with Snehashis Chakraborty and Debabrata Roy creating some good build-ups. East Bengal's bext chances came of Debabrata crosses from the left with once Dipendu Biswas heading over while on the second occasion Edmilson controlled the ball well but then shot over. The less said about the second half the better. Both sides just didn't get their game together with East Bengal not having even one shot on goal, while Salgaocar's build-ups looked better with Rocus Lamare and Fabio dos Passos trying to create something but the strikers couldn't utilise them. But it was Fabio who wasted the best of the chances not able to score on two occasions infront of goal. Both sides will have to do better to avoid relegation from the I-League.