{"id":318,"date":"2011-10-16T01:06:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T01:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=318"},"modified":"2011-10-16T01:06:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T01:06:49","slug":"churchill-brothers-lift-durand-cup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Churchill Brothers lift Durand Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> An injury stricken Churchill Brothers defeated  defending champions Prayag United in the final match up of the 124th  Durand Cup 5-4 in penalty shootout to lift the championship for the  third time. The match that promised lot of fireworks failed miserably to  live up to the expectations with only fireworks that the near capacity  crowd saw that gathered at the stadium could see was after the Churchill  lifted the Championship Trophy. This was the fifth time that Churchill  Brothers had entered the Country\u2019s oldest football tournament and  winning thrice. They last won the Durand Cup in 2009 when they beat  Mohun Bagan 3-1.\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Churchill Coach Manuel Gomez was looking very satisfied with the  result and hopes to carry it forward for rest of the season. \u201cIt was a  great victory especially with the top players missing. The boys played a  well organized football and looked confident about winning the game  from the word go and I also trusted my players that they can do it  without the two main foreign players,\u201d said Manuel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The match should have well ended  within the regulation time had the Prayag striking pair of Brazilian  Joshimar De Silva and Ghanaian Yusuf Yakubu converted the chances that  came their way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Prayag United like any other game in  the tournament started imposing pressure on their opposition within the  first few minute of the game. Their first chance to score came in the  second minute of the match when a Denson Devadas\u2019 header off a corner  from Lukram Singh hit the crossbar. Prayag got one more chance of  scoring in the 19th minute of the game when Arnab Mandal\u2019s shot on  target off James corner was palmed away by the Churchill\u2019s custodian  Felix D\u2019Souza.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Churchill Brothers on the hand  playing a 4-1-4-1 combination due to the absence of their star players  like Roberto Desilva \u00a0in the midfield and Henry Arnaud and Bineesh Balan  tried well to put pressure on their opponents. Steven Dias and Jerry  Zirsanga did well and kept moving up the flanks but the combination  however left the striker Ndubuisi Opara alone to tackle Prayag\u2019s central  defenders Rasaq Bello and Arnab Mandal who were quite outstanding  throughout the tournament and did not allow him to make any inroads in  the match.<\/div>\n<div>Two minutes prior to the half time Prayag were in hunt again, when  Yusuf shot on the target but Churchill goalie D\u2019Souza nudged it out to  denied Prayag the lead in the game.<\/div>\n<div>After the change of ends, Prayag United got the best chance of the  match when Sukhen Dey gave a nice through pass to charging Joshimar but  his shot could not find the nets as D\u2019Souza came to the rescue again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Six minute before the final match  Prayag got one more chance to score, when Yusuf took a shot at the open  nets but D\u2019Souza\u2019s brilliant acrobatic save diving to the right denied  them again.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The extra time of the match could  hardly see any action with both the team trying to play very safe with  most of the activity happening within the midfield. Just before one  minute remaining for the extra time to finish, Prayag\u2019s coach Sanjay Sen  replaced his first choice goalkeeper Abhijit Mandal with Somanth Khara.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Both the sides converted the first  four penalty and the match was expected to get into sudden death before  Yusuf, Prayag\u2019s most experienced player after playing superbly  throughout the tournament shot the ball wide off the goalpost to give  Churchill the upper hand. And as Denzil Franco took his stance for the  deciding spot kick, predictions were already made and he did not let it  go wrong as he sweetly put the ball past the nets to give Churchill  their third Durand Cup.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Prayag\u2019s Coach Sanjay Sen did not  look that dejected and accepted the loss very positively. \u201cWe played  very well throughout the tournament and did not concede any field goals.  The fact that we created so many chances in the field today shows the  quality of this side. We played good football throughout and it is  unfortunate we lost today but nevertheless we would like to carry this  momentum on to the I-League,\u201d said Sanjay.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Final Score: 0-0(5-4 penalty shootout)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Scorers:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Churchill Brothers: Lalrindika Ralte, Zakeer Mundampara, Bineesh Balan, Anton Kouacic, Denzil Franco<\/div>\n<div>Prayag United: Kayne Vincent, Mohammad Rafiq, Rasaq Bello, S. Malsawn Tlunga<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>By Samikshan Dutta Choudhury<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"white-space: pre;\">I<\/span>ndian Sports News<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> An injury stricken Churchill Brothers defeated  defending champions Prayag United in the final match up of the 124th  Durand Cup 5-4 in penalty shootout to lift the championship for the  third time. The match that promised lot of fireworks failed miserably to  live up to the expectations with only fireworks that the near capacity  crowd saw that gathered at the stadium could see was after the Churchill  lifted the Championship Trophy. This was the fifth time that Churchill  Brothers had entered the Country\u2019s oldest football tournament and  winning thrice. 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