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The monsoon is astir the corner. But its precursor is here, and it announced its beingness successful a alternatively emphatic mode present connected Sunday night.
Strong rainfall lashed the last of the Kerala Premier League shot tourney astatine the Corporation Stadium.
In the clash betwixt 2 Kozhikode-based clubs, Gokulam Kerala FC and Calicut FC, it rained goals, too. And it was Gokulam that won 3-2 to regain the trophy it past bagged 5 years ago.
Gokulam was the deserving victor arsenic Calicut had to play drawback up close done the rubric contest.
The Calicut men were stunned by Mohamed Bilal’s devastating duplicate onslaught wrong the archetypal 5 minutes.
A extremity from Ameen 8 minutes earlier the interval — his 3rd successful 2 matches — had fixed them hope, but they suffered different setback erstwhile Muhammed Sinan made it 3-1 for Gokulam.
Substitute Rifhath Ramzan’s extremity successful wounded clip — a header disconnected a corner-kick — came excessively precocious for Calicut. It lone made the last people much respectable.
Earlier, Gokulam’s archetypal extremity came disconnected a superb walk down the near flank by Sinan, who bushed the defence to acceptable up Bilal. Just 3 minutes later, a agelong shot by Aman Gaikwad from good wrong Gokulam’s fractional recovered Bilal successful the heavy of the enactment erstwhile again.
The Gokulam men whitethorn person struggled successful the Indian Football League this season, but they were not going to squander a two-goal pb connected the night.
The result: Final: Gokulam Kerala FC 3 (Mohamed Bilal 2, 5, Muhammed Sinan 72) bt Calicut FC 2 (Ameen 37, Rifhath Ramzan 90+4).
