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I-LEAGUE - The Home of India's Premier Football League

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

Referee
Deepak Singh (Delhi)

Assistent Referees
Mohammed Kamil (Delhi), Naveen Jaideep Sundi (Jharkhand)

Fourth Official
Sitendu B Saha (Delhi)

Match Commissioner
Pradip Nag (West Bengal)

2	:	0

GOALS
1-0 E. da Silva Escobar (55')
2-0 Daljit Singh (67')

YELLOW CARDS
85' H. Napoleon Singh (AI)

RED CARDS
none

MAN OF THE MATCH
Julius Irabor Akpele (JCT)

JCT

AIR-INDIA

1-Karanjit Singh [GK]
2-Jaspal Singh
3-Anwar Ali
4-Julius Irabor Akpele [C]
12-Daljit Singh
13-Baldeep Singh Sr (80' #8)
27-Baldeep Singh Jr (55' #28)
20-Marcos Pereira
6-Baljit Singh Sahni
11-Sunil Chhetri
10-E. da Silva Escobar (71' #17)

Formation: 4-4-2

Substitutes:
32-Prasanta Dora [GK]
23-Harish Sharma
28-Shivraj Singh (55' #27)
8-Jaswinder Singh (80' #13)
15-P Renedy Singh
24-Gurwinder Singh
17-Parveen Kumar (71' #10)

1-Arnab Das Sharma [GK]
2-Haobijam Napoleon Singh
26-Amrit Pal Singh
3-Nirmal Chetri
4-L Dhanachandra Singh (83' #9)
6-L Uttam Singh
15-Sanju Pradhan (65' #8)
12-Michael Segum Tayo
20-Paresh Shivalkar
27-Bashiree Mohammed Abbas
7-Njoh Jean (73' #18)

Formation: 5-3-2

Substitutes:
30-Sarath EC [GK]
16-Covan Lawrence
13-Hirohito Elangbam
8-Kumar Samson Singh (65' #15)
11-Hringsolal Thomte
9-Jiten Rai (83' #4)
18-Hamza Zaheer Abbas (73' #7)



	Phagwara's JCT slammed two goals to beat Air-India from Mumbai in a Round 16 match of the inaugural I-League played at the Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana. With today's win JCT moved to 29 points from 16 matches to keep their title hopes alive, while Air-India stay on 17 points from the same number of matches. After a barren first half, JCT's Brazilian striker Eduardo da Silva Escobar struck the first goal in the 55th minute from a long range freekick. JCT's Leftback Daljit Singh scored the second goal in the 67th minute of the game with a strong left footer from close to the halfway line. Air-India, who were dominant in the first half, squandered many chances to go ahead. JCT keeper Karanjit Singh made some brilliant saves in the first as well as second half to deny the Airmen.