{"id":33069,"date":"2017-02-05T16:39:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33069"},"modified":"2017-02-05T16:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:39:48","slug":"i-league-east-bengal-floor-chennaicity-fc-3-0-consolidate-lead-at-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33069","title":{"rendered":"I-League: East Bengal floor ChennaiCity FC 3-0, consolidate lead at top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-33068\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/east-bangal9.jpg\" alt=\"east bangal9\" width=\"520\" height=\"349\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/east-bangal9.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/east-bangal9-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/east-bangal9-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Barasat (West Bengal): Kolkata football giants East Bengal consolidated their lead at the top of the <strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/242-i-league\">I-League<\/a><\/strong> with a convincing 3-0 win over <strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/3238-chennai-city-fc\">Chennai City FC<\/a><\/strong> at the Barasat Stadium here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Wedson Anselme (50th), Willis Plaza (75th) and Lalrindika Ralte (90+4) scored second half goals to give the red and gold brigade their sixth successive triumph and leave them high on 19 points from seven matches.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai were consigned to their second consecutive defeat leaving them stranded at the foot of the table with four points from seven outings.<\/p>\n<p>East Bengal got the first chance in the seventh minute when Nikhil Poojary was set up by a buccaneering Wedson Ansleme, but the Under-22 player agonisingly shot over the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai showed good defensive skills to choke their more fancied rivals down the middle with Brazilian Charles D&#8217;Souza coming close on two occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Robin Singh missed a gilt-edged opportunity as well, his header ballooning over from inside the box as the contest ended goalless at half-time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more: <a href=\"football-news\/44205-minerva-punjab-fc-in-a-soup-over-bust-up-between-technical-director-owner\">Minerva Punjab FC in a soup over bust-up between technical director, owner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the second half, it was all about the hosts&#8217; star players Wedson and Plaza who scored two goals to change the match on its head.<\/p>\n<p>First, a wonderful 25-yard lob by Ralte was turned in by Wedson. Then, Wedson turned provider minutes later with a defence-splitting pass for Plaza who scored with ease.<\/p>\n<p>In second half injury time, Thongkosiem Haokip was brought down by Nigerian Echezona Anyichie inside the box with Ralte turning in from the spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-33068\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/east-bangal9.jpg\" alt=\"east bangal9\" width=\"520\" height=\"349\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/east-bangal9.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/east-bangal9-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/east-bangal9-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>Barasat (West Bengal): Kolkata football giants East Bengal consolidated their lead at the top of the <strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/242-i-league\">I-League<\/a><\/strong> with a convincing 3-0 win over <strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/3238-chennai-city-fc\">Chennai City FC<\/a><\/strong> at the Barasat Stadium here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Wedson Anselme (50th), Willis Plaza (75th) and Lalrindika Ralte (90+4) scored second half goals to give the red and gold brigade their sixth successive triumph and leave them high on 19 points from seven matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[13995,20312,541,12975,345,466],"class_list":["post-33069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football","tag-barasat-stadium","tag-chennai-city-fc","tag-east-bengal","tag-football-news","tag-i-league","tag-indian-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I-League: East Bengal floor ChennaiCity FC 3-0, consolidate lead at top - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=33069\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I-League: East Bengal floor ChennaiCity FC 3-0, consolidate lead at top - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barasat (West Bengal): Kolkata football giants East Bengal consolidated their lead at the top of the I-League with a convincing 3-0 win over Chennai City FC at the Barasat Stadium here on Sunday. 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