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Guru Nanak Singh Stadium
at Ludhiana, Punjab || Kickoff: 14.00 IST

Referee
A Arjunan (Services)

Assistent Referees
BS Negi (Delhi), SB Saha (Delhi)

Fourth Officials
A Rowan (Services)

Match Commissioner
DS Bist (Delhi)

3	:	0

GOALS
1-0 Baljit Singh Sahni (5')
2-0 Baldeep Singh Sr (8')
3-0 E. de Silva Escobar (38')

YELLOW CARDS
none

RED CARDS
none

MAN OF THE MATCH
Baljit Singh Sahni (JCT)

JCT

EAST BENGAL CLUB

32-Prasanta Dora [GK]
13-Baldeep Singh Sr
24-Gurwinder Singh
4-Julius Irabor Apkele [C]
12-Daljit Singh
6-Baljit Singh Sahni (70' #8)
2-Jaspal Singh
20-Marcos Pereira
27-Baldeep Singh Jr
11-Sunil Chetri (60' #17)
10-E.d. Silva Escobar (81' #25)

Formation: 4-4-2

Substitutes:
21-Mukhwinderjit Singh [GK]
23-Harish Sharma
25-Sakatar Singh (81' #10)
5-Narinder Singh
8-Jaswinder Singh (70' #6)
28 Shivraj Singh
17-Parveen Kumar (60' #11)

24-Subrata Pal [GK]
5-Debabrata Roy (46' #16)
32-Madhab Das (13' #9)
12-Anupam Sarkar
29-Saumik Dey
23-Mehtab Hussain
4-Julius Owino
7-Jayanta Sen
34-Sneh. Chakraborty (25' #10)
19-Syed Rahim Nabi [C]
15-Macdonald M Mukansi

Formation: 4-4-2

Substitutes:
21-Abhra Mondal [GK]
16-Ratan Das (46' #5)
6-Dipankar Roy
14-Chandan Das
9-Alvito D'Cunha (13' #32)
17-Surya Bikash Chakraborty
10-Dipendu Biswas (25' #34)



	Punjab's leading soccer outfit JCT blanked East Bengal Club 3-0 in the 11th round match of the ongoing I-League played at the Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana. Brazilian striker Eduardo da Silva Escobar was the star in JCT's victory having a hand in two goals scored by Baljit Singh Sahni in the 6th minute and Baldeep Singh Sr. in the 9th minute of the game with one goal to his credit which came in the 39th minute of the game. JCT was in top form as it took just six minutes to take the lead. Picking up the ball outside the East Bengal penalty area, Eduardo sent a well-calculated pass to Baljit Singh Sahni, whose powerful volley beat the East Bengal custodian to put the home side ahead. Three minutes later, it was again Eduardo who was at the centre of the action in the middle of the field. Moving into the rival area after dogging past three defenders, he sent a pass to Baldeep Sr inside the penalty box who headed the ball gently into the net to increase the lead for JCT. In the 39th minute of the game Eduardo's moment came when he was brought down by an East Bengal defender in the penalty area and Eduardo made no mistake by scoring his own goal to put favourites JCT 3-0 ahead. The second half affairs of the game were lackluster. East Bengal made few attempts at the rival goal, but the JCT defence did not provide enough space to take a shot at the goal. JCT with this win has moved to 22 points from 11 matches, maintaining its second position behind Dempo in the I-League table. East Bengal, which is having a miserable run in the I-League so far remain on 8 points and are now in the relegation zone as ninth.