NorthEast United FC piled further misery on SC East Bengal with a 2-0 win in their Indian Super League encounter at the Tilak Maidan, Goa.
A Surchandra Singh (33’) own goal and an injury-time strike from Rochharzela (90’) helped the Highlanders remain unbeaten and climb to second spot in the league table. East Bengal are yet to score in the league. SCEB will be disappointed that a good display did not lead to points, with a couple of key refereeing decisions going against them.
SCEB coach Robbie Fowler made a solitary change to his starting XI which suffered a 0-3 defeat to Mumbai City FC with Sehnaj Singh coming in place of Daniel Fox.
NEUFC coach Gerard Nus continued to shuffle his squad making five changes to the side that drew against FC Goa. Gurmeet, Ashutosh Mehta, Mashoor Shereef, Kwesi Appiah and Ninthoinganba Meetei were back in the playing eleven.
SCEB were clearly the better side in a dour first half but they failed to translate their dominance into scoring….