Led by Borja Herrera’s sensational hat-trick, FC Goa secured their first win of their Indian Super League 2024-25 marketing campaign as they edged previous hosts East Bengal 3-2 in Kolkata on Friday. The guests began the sport brightly as they made some impactful strikes into the ultimate third. The likes of Dejan Drazic, Borja Herrera and Boris Singh made openings early on within the sport. Their persistent assaults have been quickly rewarded when Drazic’s cross from the left was parried away by East Bengal goalkeeper Debjit Majumder.
However, the stray ball fell to Borja in area and the Spaniard slotted it into the online within the thirteenth minute.
The Gaurs stored troubling the East Bengal FC backline with their darting counter-attacks. In such an occasion, Boris Singh received possession from Hijazi Maher on the correct flank in a harmful space. The teenager got here up with a wonderfully weighted cut-back to seek out Borja within the field, who slammed it residence once more within the twentieth minute to double the lead for the guests.
However, the Carles Cuadrat-coached group retaliated effectively with some offensive strikes.
They ultimately discovered a gap when Nim Dorja tripped Madih Talal within the penalty space, awarding the Red and Gold Brigade a spot-kick and a possibility to come back again within the sport.
Talal stepped up and calmly slotted it previous Laxmikant Kattimani to drag a aim again within the twenty ninth minute.
East Bengal FC began the second interval positively with some penetrative assaults. However, the actual opening fell to FC Goa, when Drazic and Rowllin Borges mixed and opened up the Red and Gold defence. But the latter’s eventual effort was vast astray. The Serbian got here up with one other effort from outdoors the field however as soon as once more it went vast.
FC Goa regained their two-goal benefit within the 71st minute when Udanta Singh received possession from Hijazi and squared it to Borja in area. The Spanish midfielder cruised his approach into the penalty space earlier than rippling the again of the online to finish his hat-trick.
The guests have been in a spot of hassle when Carl McHugh obtained a second yellow card within the 81st minute. East Bengal FC made full use of their numeric benefit when David Lalhlansanga pulled one aim again within the eighty fifth minute after Kattimani parried a long-range effort from Anwar Ali straight on his path.
East Bengal stored pushing for the equaliser within the remaining minutes however FC Goa held fort and walked away with most factors.
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