In a 17 Degree Temperature cool weather,Al Nejmeh took the lead on 20th minutes through Makhete Diop when Ali Hamam crossed for Diop who headed home. Earlier, East Bengal Keeper Abhra saved a powerful punch of Diop in 13 minutes.

Al Nejmeh doubed their margin in 24th minutes to beat East Bengal Keeper Abhra Mondol, who got the ball from Akram Moghrabi from midfield area.The half time result was 2-0 in favour of Home team.

In the 2nd half Al Nejmej scored their last and third through a penalty.Defender El Najjarine made no mistake to score from the penalty.

Bilal El Najjarine’s 48th minute penalty sealed the three points three minutes into the second hald as Al Nejmeh joined Al Ittihad on four points at the top of the table after the Syrians shared a goalless draw with Al Qadsia.

With this defeat East Bengal at the last of the table with Al Qadsia on two points after a second draw in two games.

EAST BENGAL: ABHRA, NIRMAL, OKPARA, KHABRA (RENEDY 61'), SUBASH SINGH (ALVITO 55'), MEHTAB, SANJU, MEHRAJ, BEIKHOKHEI (SOUMIK 53'), HAMMOND, YAKUBU,

2) 16.02.2010  :   EK Nayanar Trophy - Pune FC   0 - 0   East Bengal

3) 18.02.2010  :  EK Nayanar Trophy - East Bengal  1 - 1  Chirag United

4) 19.02.2010  :  EK Nayanar Trophy - East Bengal  0 - 0  Lajong FC

5) 27.02.2010 - CFL  :   Est Bengal   0 - 0   Mohammedan S.C

6) 02.03.2010-I-League 2009-2010  :   East Bengal  1 - 2  Pune FC

7) 06.03.2010-I-League 2009-2010  :   Lajong FC  1 - 0   East Bengal

8) 10.03.2010-AFC Cup 2010  :   East Bengal  1 - 4  Al Ittihad (SYR)

9) 13.03.2010-I-League 2009-2010  :  East Bengal  1 - 1  Mahindra United

10) 17.03.2010-AFC Cup 2010  : Al Nejmeh (LEB)   3 - 0   East Bengal(IND)

on Sept 18, 2007,Mahindra United went down 1-2 to Lebanon's Al Nejmeh club in the first leg of the AFC Cup quarter-final at the Ambedkar stadium in Delhi.

After losing 1 - 4 to Al Ittihad at home in their first match in AFC cup East Bengal's Belgian coach Philippe De Ridder is confident East Bengal can bounce back.He told that last match was bad luck for East Bengal as the team lost so many goals scoring chances in that match. Earlier East Bengal made a 1 - 1 draw against league leader Mahindra United in I-League.

On the other hand Al Nejmah has appointed their new Egyptian coach Abdulaziz Abdulshafi in place of Emile Rustom,who resigned after a 1-1 draw with Kuwait’s Al Qadisa. The team win against Al Ahli Saida 3 - 0 last week under the coaching of new coach.

Abdulaziz told taht they will play an attacking game in their home ground.

Today both the teams started the match in aggressive mode but Chirag established their dominance early in the match and as early as in the 18th minute from a well direct cross of Lalkamal Bhowmick, Joshimar headed the ball into the net to score the opening goal of the match.

In rest of the first half Chirag continued their dominance in the match but in couple of occasions also the home side came close to score but in both the occasions their attempts were well denied by the Chirag defence. Again in the 43rd minute Joshimar forwarded a fine pass to Asim Biswas and Asim made no mistake to convert the opportunity into another goal to extended the lead for his team.

In the second half the entire game was dominated by the boys of Anjan Nath and the visitors could have scored more goals during this span of time but again and again poor finishing prohibited extending the goal margin further and finally the match ended with 2-0 scoreline in favour of Chirag.

With this crucial win Chirag not only returned back to the winning track but also climbed up to the fourth position in the I-League table with 26 points from 16 matches. Joshimar de silva of Chirag scored 13 goals so far as the top scorer after ending of 16th round .

At the end Joshimar De Silva of Chirag United has been declared Man of the Match.

Chirag United:Sandip, Subhasish, Arnab, Kingshuk, Dhanarajan, Gouranga Biswas, Denson, Lalkamal, Gouranga Dutta, Asim, Joshimar(Jayanta).

Mumbai FC:Nithinlal, Quao, Anas, Faizal, Bernard, Noel, Vincent, Ambrose, Kamaljeet, Nishat, Coutinho.

88': Sandip Nandy well saved a header of Subhash Chakrabarty who came in place of Noel Wilson.

88': Joshimar Da Silva has been declared Man of the Match today.

86':Asim Biswas lost a chance to score. Subhasish well passed him but Asim's shot went away.

78': Good effort by Gouranga Dutta. His long ranger went away.

75': Jayanta Sen came in place of Joshimar. Asim,Gouranga Dutta is playing well in upfront.Arnab and Subhasish well playing in defence.

68':Chirag missed a golden chance. Gouranga Dutta missed an one to one situation.His shot direct went to MFC keeper's hand.

60': Well attack by Asim from left. Noel wilson was there who stopped him. Counter attacking by Mumbai side.

46': 2nd Half started. Chirag is trying to increase the margin.

HT: It's half time now. Chirag is leading by 2 - 0.

43': GOALLLLLLLL..2nd goal of Chirag United. Joshimar passed well in the Box towards Asim Biswas who made no mistake to score.

34': Vincent of Mumbai FC got a chance to score. Alex Ambrose passed him in the box but Vincent was unable to received properly and fallen down in front of goal. Arnab cleared out.

20': Chirag is pressurising more and more therough Joshimar, Asim.They have got five corners but utilized one just now.

18':Chirag got a corner which was taken by Lalkamal Bhowmick. Joshimar was Unmrked and his brilliant header beat MFC keeper Nidhinlal.

18': GOALLLLLLLL...Chirag scored goal Through Joshimar.

10':Still No score.

5': Match starts. Both teams are in attaching mode.

90': GOALLLLLLLL..Kuwait equalized the score through Bashar abdullah Abdulaziz. Substitute Ahmad Sobeah took a shot which hit the crossbar and came to Rodrigo Vergilio who passed the ball towards unmarked Bashar Abdulaziz scored with his right footer.Arimdam was not in his position. Now the result is 2 - 2.

74': Churchill Brothers is leading now 2-1.

71': GOALLLLLLLL.. Ogba Kalu scored this time off a nice cross from Lalrindika. Kalu's header went to goal.

70': Now the score line is 1 - 1.
68': GOALLLLLLLL.. Odafa equalised for Churchill. Ogba Kalu well passed him after getting a cross from R. Vasum from right side.

64' GOALLLLLLLL.Kuwait FC scored goal. Nawaf osama scored the goal by his nice header off Hussain Hakim free kick.

25': Again chance missed by Churchill. Odafa got a ball from Vasum but bad luck of Odafa. Kuwait keeper well saved his back volly from a closer.

20': Felix got a chance to score but finally his shot went over the bar. . Good passed to him by Ogba Kalu.

16': Churchill is fighting well against defending Champions Kuwait FC. Felix and Odafa missed open chances two times.

FILE PIC: Mohun Bagan vs Al Kuwait FC

Defending Champion churchill Brothers will start their AFC cup campain tomorrow against defending champions Kuwait Sporting Club of Kuwait in group 'B' to be played at Nehru stadium Fatorda Margao. The team who beat Mohun Bagan two times in group league match in AFC cup 1-0 and 6-0 last year.

Churchill Brothers currently laying in 3rd position in I-League after 16th Round of the match .At home a four-year unbeaten record of churchill at Nehru Stadium in Goa recently ended to Mahindra United by losing 1 - 4.

Churchill Coach Brazilian Carlos Pereira told that the match will be very tough against the defending Champion Kuwait F.C.But we hope we can get full points against the visiting team.Churchill lost to get the place in the AFC Champions League play-offs by losing 1 - 5 to Al Wahda.

Pereira will mainly depends on Nigerian forwards Odafe Okolie, who scored 12 goals in his in the current I-league, along with Felix and Ogba Kalu.

On the other, the Kuwait team, coached by Brazilian Arthur Bernardes Da Silva Filho said they have prepared for tomorrow's match and are raring to go. Players are in a good form to play their second match.They were held to a 1-1 draw by Al Hilal of Yemen in first match in AFC cup.

They have two foreigners striker Rodrigo Vergilio and midfielder Rogerio de Assis Silva Coutinho. But Kuwait coach also told that his team could find the going tough in the hot and humid conditions of Goa.He had no idea about Churchill's style of play.

In March 04, 2005 Mr. Subrata Dutta (Hony, Secretary of IFA then) founded the IFA Referees' Academy at Kalyani in collaboration with Kalyani Municipality and Calcutta Referees Association.

Project Future is among the key education programmes initiated by AFC to boost the quality of referees and coaches in Asia.

Mr. Banerjee will attend the course in Kuala Lumpur from April 18 to April 23.The IFA Honorary Secretary, Utpal Ganguly and the AIFF vice president, Subrata Dutta have expressed their happiness over Mr.Banerjee’s selection .

With the kick-off Bagan players took the control of the game and one by one effective attacks were built by them and soon the JCT defence looked like panic stricken. During this span the visitors wasted numbers of opportunities to move ahead in the match. Especially in the 16th minute of the match Marcos remained unlucky to open the scoreline as his shot went out of the goal with an inch. Mohun Bagan kept their dominance in the first half but failed to score even a single goal.

While in the second half the home team tried to fight back in the match but the Maroon and Green brigade continued their supremacy in the game. During this span of time Karanjit Singh the JCT keeper saved the fall of his team with two brilliant efforts. In the 59th minute Chidi was brought down into the penalty box and the referee offered an unquestionable penalty to Mohun Bagan. But surprisingly Bareto wasted this golden opportunity as his spot kick went outside the goal.

In the final day 0f 2009 in a semi-final match of the Federation Cup against East Bengal Bareto also missed a penalty kick and Bagan paid heavily in the match as the Red and Gold won the match with 2-0 scoreline. Again today Bareto Made va similar mistake and as the result the visitors failed to score even a single goal in the match and finally the match ended as a goalless draw to confirm single point to each team.

JCT : Karanjeet, Sunil Kumar, Narinder, Baljit Sahni (Jaswinder), Penn Orji, Emmanuel Okoro (Balwant Singh), Daljit, Lalchhuanmawia, Henry Ezeh, Gurwinder, Sakhtar (Harish Sharma)

MMB: Sangram, Deepak, Masih, Surkumar, Manju, Marcos, Seuoka, Snehashis (James), Isfaq, Barreto, Chidi.

Jaswinder Singh Man of the Match, Jaswinder came as substitute and got Man of the Match for his brilliant goal line save, goalkeeper was beaten.

MATCH ENDS 0-0.

90+2: Good attack by Mohun Bagan, Barreto pass to Sueoka, but cleared by defence.

90: Referee gives 3 minute injury time.

89: James corner, brilliant head by Barreto, but nicely saved by Jaswinder from goalline.

89: Ishfaq earns a corner for Mohun Bagan.

87: Attack by JCT, Penn tries to take a shot, cleared by Dipak.

85: Harish Sharma in Sakhtar Singh out.

84: Marcos pass to Barreto, brilliant try by Barreto, but his placement to left of goalkeeper beat Karanjit but just misses target.

82: Marcos takes the free kick but foul against Barreto.

82: Mohun Bagan gets free kick for foul on Chidi.

81: Chidi pass to Barreto to Sueoka, but cleared by defence.

80: Good move by JCT, but Henry's run intercepted by Manju.

78: James free kick, but Karanjit collects the ball over Chidi's head and he is wasting time by falling to the ground.

78: Barreto fouled outside penalty box near touch line.

77: Corner for Mohun Bagan, but headed out by JCT defence.

76: Good play by Chidi, his cross from right after he gets past 1 player, but ball just a little high for Barreto who tried a lot to head the ball.

74: Counter attack by Mohun Bagan, Sueoka and Barreto combine well, but nothing results.

72: Change for Mohun Bagan, James in, Snehashish out. Ishfaq goes to left half from right half and James will play in right half.

70: Another change for JCT, Baljit Singh Sahni out and Jaswinder in.

68 Another JCT move, nicely cleared by Masih.

66: Okoro out and Balwant Singh in for JCT.

65: Henry to Sakhtar, cleared by Surkumar.

62: JCT attacking more now.

60: Barreto shot goes out left of goalkeeper.

59: Mohun Bagan gets penalty, Chidi fouled by Narinder Singh.

57: Attack by JCT, pass to Penn, but intercepted by Dipak.

53: Marcos to Ishfaq, switches flank, but JCT player gets ball before Snehashish could get the ball.

52: Chidi gets a ball from Barreto, but his shot out of target, took a good shot.

50: Midfield action going on in 2nd half.

43: YELLOW CARD. Ishfaq booked for arguing with referee.

38: Baljit takes the corner, ball comes to Mohun Bagan box, but defence manages to clear the ball, it goes to Sueoka, he passes the ball to Ishfaq in right flank, but ball goes out.

37: JCT attack, Baljit Sahni attacks down right flank, Rakesh tries to clear the ball, ball hits Manju and goes out for corner.

36: Marcos corner, but JCT defence clears the ball.

35: Marcos brilliant free kick, Karanjit fists the ball out for corner.

35: Mohun Bagan gets free kick.

33: Okoro to Sakhtar to Henry, but intercepted by Surkumar.

32: Through pass by Penn towards Daljit, but he cant reach the ball.

30: Sueoka pass to Ishfaq, he runs but his cross headed out.

28: Marcos corner, Dipak tries to head the ball, but cleared by defence, from outside box Ishfaq takes a shot, it hits a JCT player and they counter attack, but Manju makes a good clearance.

28: Barreto earns another corner for Mohun Bagan.

26: Snehasish pass to Manju, but he gives mispass. JCT counter attack, but nice interception by Dipak.

24: Another move by JCT down right flank, but Henry's effort goes to Sangram.

23: Rakesh brilliant tackle on Penn, appeals for penalty, but referee rightly says play on.

21: Forward pass by Chidi for Barreto, but nicely cleared by JCT defence. Mohun Bagan dominating the match now.

19: Corner for Mohun Bagan. Marcos corner, Barreto leaps to head the ball, referee gives foul against him.

18: Throw for JCT. Long throw taken by Baljit, but nicely headed out by Dipak.

16: It was a very good move by Mohun Bagan. The ball came to Chidi from a combined move of Marcos and Barreto.

16: Good chance for MOhun Bagan but Chidi's shot just goes wide.

13: Corner for Mohun Bagan, Marcos corner but cleared by defence.

11: JCT attack down left flank, ball goes to Penn, his cross goes to Sangram.

9: Marcos free kick cleared by JCT.

9: Mohun Bagan gets a freekick.

8: Marcos long ball meant for Chidi, but headed out by defence.

6: Ball with Chidi, but cleared by defence.

5: Ishfaq to Sueoka, tackled by JCT player.

3: First attack by Mohun Bagan, Snehasish run down left flank, his cross meant for Sueoka, but defence heads out the ball.

3: For Mohun Bagan, Manju is playing as left back while Masih and Dipak is in stopper position. Ishfaq is in right half while Snehasish is in left half. Marcos is playing as defensive medio while Sueoka as attacking medio with Barreto and Chidi the two strikers.

2: JCT gets a free kick outside Mohun Bagan box, ball goes straight to Sangram.

1: Match starts.

2008/2009   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   1:1
2008/2009   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   2:0
2007/2008   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   1:1
2007/2008   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   1:2
2006/2007   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   1:3
2006/2007   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   2:0
2006   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   0:1
2006   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   0:2
2005   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   0:0
2005   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   1:0
2004   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   0:0
2004   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   0:1
2003   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   1:0
2003   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   3:3
2002   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   1:2
2002   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   2:0
2001   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   2:2
2001   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   2:2
2000   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   3:1
2000   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   2:1
1999   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   1:1
1999   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   0:0
1999   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   1:2
1999   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   0:0
1998   :   Mohun Bagan AC - JCT FC   :   1:0
1998   :   JCT FC - Mohun Bagan AC   :   0:0

Total Match - 27
win - 7 | lost - 11 | Draw - 9
GF - 27 | G A - 29

Today Dempo scored first through Ranty Martins in 33rd minutes.Nicholas Borges crossed from left and Salgaocar Iranian defencer Samiena unable to clear the ball and for his mistake Ranty Martins got the ball pushed easily 1 - 0. Salgaocar equalised it just after six minutes through a nice header of Iranian Rouhollah Samienia off a Francis Fernandez corner kick in 39th minutes 1 - 1.

Just before 2 minutes before of half time Salgaocar increased their margin through Ikenwa 2 - 1. The half time result was in favour of Salgaocar 2 - 1.

In 2nd half Benchirifa Boys got some chances to score but failed . Dempo found the equalizer in the 60th minute when their defrnder Anwar Ali found the net from inside the box off a free kick taken by Climax Lawerence in 60th minute 2 -2.

Salgaocar scored the winner in 66th minute when Ekene Ikenwa again scored for his team.3-2.Dempo still remained 2nd in the league table on account of superior goal difference with 29 points each along with Mahindra United, While Salgaocar moved up with 18 points from 16 Matches and jumped into 11th place from 10th.. .

In the other two matches of the day, Kailash Patil scored in 55th minutes as Air India defeat their arch rival Pune F.C while Shillong Lajong and Sporting Clube-de Goa shared a goalless draw at Nehru Stadium in shillong.But Sporting Goa lost an oppertunity to score from a Penalty.Lajong Keeper well saved Nicholas Rodrigues spot kick.

Today with the kick off both the teams tried to creat pressure on each other. Though Mahindra built the early attacks but it was East Bengal who played better football in the first half. Numbers of opportunities were wasted by the home teams in the first half to open the scoreline. Especially in the 14th minute of the match Sanju Pradhan failed to convert a golden opportunity into goal when he failed to beat Mahindra keeper Subhashis Roy Chowdhury in one to one position. The visitors also created quite a few opportunity but could not make any changes to the scoreline.

In the second half both the teams showed urgency for scoring and finally in the 65th minute of the match from a brilliant 40 yards shot Mehtab opened the scoreline for the home side. But the joy of the home crowd did not last long as in the 74th minute from a decent cross of Sushil Singh, Md. Rafi scored the equalizer for the visitors. In rest of the time the match remained almost uneventful as the final scoreline denote a 1-1 draw. But as usual today also Bhaichung Bhutia the star of the Red and Gold brigade was in off colour which was quite a bit threatening to his team in the I-League.

KEB: Abhra, Nirmal, Okpara, Hammond(alvito 91'), Khabra, Yakubu, Mehtaab, Baichung (Subhash 46'), Nabi(C) (Bekhokhai 46'), Sanju, Mehrajuddin

MU: Subhasish, Tamba, Sushant(C), S.Mizin, Rafi, Franco, Kali Alauddin, Paresh , Dias, Debabrata , Sushil

East Bengal

Match - 27; win - 13; Drawn - 6 ; Lost - 8; GF - 32 ; GA - 21 p>

Thursday evening the IFA Premier and First Division League Sub-committee members met all the accused players at IFA Office where all footballers accepted the charges and demanded apologies and promised in front of the committee members not to repeat the same event. The video clippings of the match were also watched by the committee members before declared the punishment.

After the meeting the Secretary of the IFA Utpal Gangopadhyay declared the punishment for the accused footballers.

Earlier in England Emmanuel Adebayor, the Manchester City striker was accused with same kind of charge and on 24th February, 2010 because of a dangerous foul committed by him during FA cup match against Stoke City. Adebayor was shown red card and finally he was suspended for next four matches.The 25-year-old Togo forward received a straight red for raising an arm at Stoke's defender Ryan Shawcross .

Alvito d Counha (East Bengal) : 2 Match suspend for Seeing Red Cards alongwith 3 extra match suspend and Rs.50,000 fine.

Ugo Okpara (East Bengal) : 2 Match suspend for Seeing Red Cards alongwith 1 extra match suspend and Rs.25,000 fine.

Eduardo Escober (Mohammedan S.C) : 2 Match suspend for Seeing Red Cards alongwith 3 extra match suspend and Rs.50,000 fine.

Dipankar Roy (Mohammedan S.C) : 2 Match suspend for Seeing Red Cards alongwith 1 extra match suspend and Rs.25,000 fine.

Abhra Mondol (East Bengal) : 1 Match suspend and Rs.10,000 fine.

Amrit Pal Singh (Mohammedan S.C) : 1 Match suspend and Rs.10,000 fine.

Amount of Fine will be deposited before playing their next CFL match after ending their said match suspension.

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