KOLKATA: East Bengal FC’s juggernaut continued to roll on in the CFL Premier Division with Bino George’s unbeaten team crushing Suruchi Sangha 5-0 in their second Super Six championship round match on Tuesday.
A brace from Aman CK (9 and 41 minutes) and a goal apiece from PV Vishnu (17), Jesin TK (26) and Muhammad Roshal (73) helped East Bengal stay on top of the Championship standings with 40 points from 14 matches (13 wins and 1 draw), taking another step towards regaining the crown. This was also their second successive win in the Super Six after beating Calcutta Customs 4-1 five days ago.
They will take on defending champions Mohammedan Sporting in their next fixture on Friday.
“I am satisfied with my boys' performance today, but to be honest, we should've scored more goals in the second half. There is no room for complacency and we need to remain alert throughout the 90 minutes," East Bengal coach George said after the game.
Aman started the demolition job at the East Bengal ground, latching on to Jesin’s brilliant through-ball down the ball and dinked it over rival goalkeeper Laltu Mondal in the 9th minute.
Jesin provided the assist to Vishnu for the second goal as well before joining the scoring party himself, giving finishing touch to a Vishnu pass.
East Bengal finished the first half with 4-0 lead on the back of a ferocious counter-attack. East Bengal goalkeeper pulled off back-to-back saves denying Suruchi’s Debjit Basak and Faruk Sekh. The home team launched a counter-offensive instantly in the 42nd minute which ended with Sayan Banerjee squaring the ball for Aman to come up with a simple tap-in.
Suruchi’s woes were complete when their goalkeeper came out of his box but instead of clearing the ball, he ended up losing it, allowing Roshal to send the ball into an open net from almost the halfway line.
