Churchill Bros SC overcame Rangdajied United FC

Both the team players tries to acquire the ball.

 

 A 55th minute penalty goal by Trinidad and Tobago midfielder Anthony Wolfe helped Churchill Brothers SC score a solitary-goal win against Rangdajied United FC and bring back hopes of resurgence in the I-League, at Tilak Maidan, Vasco on Tuesday.
The all-important goal was scored after Churchill’s Costa Rican striker Christian Lagos was fouled by Rangdajied’s goalkeeper Rehenesh TP while he was attempting to score. Referee Vishnu Chauhan promptly pointed to the dreaded spot signalling the penalty.

Anthony Wolfe stepped forward to take the penalty shot but only ended in hitting it against Rangdajied’s goalkeeper Rehenesh, who judged the ball well. The rebound however travelled back into play with Anthony Wolfe taking full advantage of it as he dashed forward and promptly slotted the ball into the nets.
Both the teams played a cautious game in the first half with none of them making any serious attempts to strike. The visitors, on few occasions, did spell some danger to the hosts with some well-woven moves which however fizzled out quite easily.
Churchill’s first serious move in the first half came when defender Denzil Franco made an excellent pass to Christian Lagos who in turn fed Anthony Wolfe and whose rasping left footer hit the post and came back into play.
Churchill’s foreign recruits — Egyptian Abdel Hamid Shabana, Costa Rican Christian Lagos and Trinidad and Tobago’s Anthony Wolfe — were surely the pick of the lot as they performed brilliantly in terms of passes as well as some scoring chances too. At times they came very close to find the mark but somehow their moves did not materialise into goals.
With these few exchanges, the teams marched out for the lemon break and it was only in the second session that one saw the best in both the teams, though Churchill had better ball possession for most part of
the play.
But in the last 10 minutes of play Rangdajied almost levelled the score wherein two powerful shots — one from Eugeneson Lyngdoh in the 80th minute and the other from Japanese midfielder Yohei Iwasaki -- almost found the nets but Churchill keeper Lalit Thapa made some smart diving efforts to rescue his team.
Rangdajied had a chance in the 70th minute as well but a neat pass by Steven Dias saw their Japanese striker Kim Song Young heading the ball just a wee bit off the target.
Churchill, who controlled the proceedings well, seemed to let it go as Rangdajied began mounting pressure but their keeper proved to be the saviour.
In the added time of two minutes Churchill almost swelled their victory margin as Anthony Wolfe let go a decent effort which however Rangdajied keeper replied with an equally decent save.
Churchill’s Christian
Lagos was adjudged the man-of-the-match.