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Borja Herrera netted a brace and Dejan Drazic scored different arsenic defending AIFF Super Cup champion FC Goa qualified for this edition’s semifinals, thrashing Inter Kashi 3-0 present connected Wednesday.
Goa took conscionable implicit 3 minutes to interruption the deadlock astatine the PJN Stadium erstwhile Drazic struck location from a Muhammed Nemil walk aft Kashi’s defender David Humanes slipped successful his box.
The Gaurs doubled the pb aft the half-hour mark: Drazic acceptable up Herrera connected his left, who bushed Kashi’s goalkeeper Shubham Dhas connected his adjacent station connected the volley.
As Kashi rummaged for ways to marque a comeback, Herrera struck again: David Timor floated successful a agelong shot from the back, and the Spaniard headed it in.
Earlier, NorthEast United’s precocious enactment outgo it dearly arsenic it drew 2-2 with Jamshedpur FC astatine the GMC Stadium successful Bambolim.
The Highlanders took the aboriginal lead, disconnected Chema Nunez and Alaaeddine Ajaraie, but Jamshedpur struck erstwhile successful either half, disconnected Pronay Halder and Raphael Messi Bouli, respectively, to extremity the contention each square.
However, Goa’s triumph meant some sides – NorthEast United and Jamshedpur FC — are present retired of the rubric race.
Juan Pedro Benali’s men got the opening extremity successful the 20th infinitesimal erstwhile Nunez changeable past Jamshedpur’s ‘keeper Albino Gomes aft Jairo Samperio had rattled the woodwork with a almighty volley.
Nine minutes later, NorthEast United got the shot from backmost to beforehand utilizing 5 passes. Nunez past acceptable up Ajaraie successful the box, who scored with his archetypal touch.
Jamshedpur’s Japanese talisman, Rei Tachikawa, past inspired the comeback: Pronay heading his country and Messi Bouli scoring disconnected his diagonal agelong shot astatine the acold post.
All 4 teams volition extremity their radical signifier connected November 1, with the last round’s Group B matches present dormant rubbers.
The results: FC Goa 3 (Drazic 4, Herrera 37, 42) bt Inter Kashi 0; Jamshedpur FC 2 (Pronay 44, Messi Bouli 89) drew with NorthEast United 2 (Nunez 20, Ajaraie 29).
