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Bengal, Manipur enter semifinals

NEYVELI DEC. 24. The defending champion, Bengal qualified for the semifinals of the NLC-National sub junior (under-16) football championship crushing Goa 5-2 in the last match of the four-team group A league at the Bharathi Stadium here on Tuesday.

In another match in this group Kerala and Manipur played a goalless draw.

Bengal tops the table with 7 points (2 wins and one draw) with an unbeaten record and Manipur, which finished runner-up with 5 points (one win and two draws), also qualified for the semifinals as the second team from this group.

Goa finished with 3 points (one win and two losses and Kerala finished with only one point (one draw and two losses).

In the Bengal-Goa Match, the first half was well-contested and Bengal had only a 2-1 lead at half time.

But in the second half Bengal outplayed the opponent for a creditable 5-2 win. Ranjit Chatterjee scored a brace (12th and 54th minutes) and Biswajit Majundar (32nd), Suman Dutta (63rd) and Ashwindas (69th) scored a goal each for Bengal. Bervan D'Mello scored (37) and Savino Fernandez (46) both the goals for Goa.

In the other match Kerala put up a better performance today against Manipur to earn its first and the only one point.

Wednesday's matches: (Group B): Bihar vs Delhi 2.30 p.m.; Mizoram vs Tamil Nadu 4 p.m.

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