Churchill display fine finishing as Cavelossim look lost

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DULER

Pankaj Sona was the hero of the day for Churchill Brothers after he sent three past SCC Cavelossim’s keeper registering a comfortable 4-1 win in the Goa Professional League, organized by GFA, played at Duler stadium here on Friday.

Both the teams started with almost the same squad where SCC Cavelossim had lost to Dempo by 1-0 while Churchill Brothers had got the better of Panjim Footballers by 1-0 win in their last league match.

After some probing, finally in the 23rd minute Churchill Brothers surged ahead as Willis Plaza collected a long ball from his defender and after dribbling a host of rival defenders beat the helpless keeper Razak with stiff grounder making it 1-0.

Three minutes later Willis Plaza would have netted his brace as he controlled a long ball from Israil Gurung at the far post and shot at the goal which was brilliantly blocked by keeper Razak. Cavelossim keeper once again came to his teams rescue as he once again blocked Pankaj Sona’s strike from close.

Richard Fernandes stepped forward and scored the equalizer, 1-1.

However in the 39th minute Sevlon Cardozo sent a through pass to Pankaj Sona right inside the 18-yard box where the latter beat the onrushing keeper Razak with a neat placement, 2-1.

On crossing ends two strikes by Willis Plaza were blocked by keeper Razak while Pankaj Sona failed to keep his shot inside the goal framework.

However in the last quarter of the match after Willis Plaza shot from close was blocked by keeper Razak, the keeper could do very little to stop Pankaj score twice in the 83rd and 84th minute to complete his hat-trick, 4-1.