Minute 52 (GOAL!!) -- Here's the equaliser!!! Bartholomew Ogbeche is off the mark for his new team. He receives a fantastic cross into the box and is tall and attentive enough to direct a downward header inside the goalpost. It's NorthEast 2-Goa 2! Game on! Minute 49 -- NorthEast are moving the ball a lot better now. The home team is advancing forward and the ove ends with Nikhil Kadam firing a shot from outside the box, but it's off-target Players are back on the pitch. Second half begins Half-time report: Goa have taken control of the match, thanks in part to the two goals scored by their star forward Coro. But other than the goals too, Goa have been the better side with them dominating the possession and slicing the NorthEast defence repeatedly with incisive passes. The beginning of the game was a sort of red herring as NorthEast United FC went forward with a lucky goal in the seventh minute. Goa's young keeper Mohammad Nawaz had a brainfade moment when he advanced outside of his box and, thinking that the ball had been called for offside handled it. The referee awarded the freekick Federico Gallego slotted home the ball into the empty net. NorthEast United tried to take inspiration from the goal and move forward but Goa did just enough to push them back. Coro's first goal came in the 13th minute when a tricky ball was dipped into the box. Coro leapt into the sky and the ball, after nikcing off one of his teammates, took a touch from his belly to score the first goal. From then on, it was all Goa as they kept probing and pushing. In the 37th minute, Coro pulled off a beautiful solo goal when he danced past three NorthEast defenders to fire in a shot inside the goal. Goa scored twice, but they could have had much more. There's an entire half left, and, with the reputation that Goa players have for scoring goals, it wouldn't be unwise to bet on them scoring many more. The NorthEast players will have to better their performance if they want to at least salvage a point from this match Minute 45 -- One minute of added time at the end of the 45 minutes Minute 44 -- Jackie on the runonce again for Goa. He sprints into the NorthEast box and tries to find his teammate but his cross is intercepted.
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