Analysis of second round of Martyrs league

By: Dinesh Thapa @ Dasarath Rangasala
football_nepal@yahoo.com

Match No 8: Manang Marshyangdi Club (MMC) Vs Brigade Boys Club (BBC)
Certainly, the entertaining match. Defending “A” division league champion MMC took on the last years “B” division champion BBC. It was the competitive match, far better than expected. As BBC was thrashed 5 – 0 in their opening match by MPC and many people thought the same result will follow with MMC. But BBC gave the MMC a tough resistance and it took 70 minute for MMC to break the BBC defense. It was a moment of magic from the prolific striker Basanta Thapa from 25 yard to stun the better performing BBC. BBC really played well than MMC but the result went to the defending champion’s way.

Score: MMC 1 – 0 BBC
Scorer: Basanta Thapa (MMC)
Possession: MMC (50%) BBC (50%)
Man of the Match: Prem Bahadur Rana Magar (BBC)

Match No 9: Mahendra Police Club (MPC) Vs Tribhuwan Army Club (TAC)
Certainly the match went as expected. About 10000 fans turned out to rangasala to witness the match between police and army. Army had to win the match to forget their lost to Three Star on the opening match. So they attack with the purpose of just only winning. But the experienced police side with full of national players was better side than army. A superb strike from out side the d box by Ramesh Budhathoki sealed the victory for the police. Ramesh was put through by Hari Khadka and Ramesh broke the Army’s offside trap and unleash the thundering rught footer from outside the D box to stun the Army custodian Chhannu Ram. Certainly the goal will be the candidate for the Goal of the season.

Score: MPC 1 – 0 TAC
Scorer: Ramesh Budhathoki (MPC)
Possession: MPC (60%) TAC (40%)
Man of the Match: Dipak Paudyal (MPC)

Match No 10: New Road Team (NRT) Vs Boys Union Club (BUC)
As everybody is hoping for the NRT win, but BUC have different ideas for the game. BUC played defensive game and try to score goal on counter attack. And that paid off with a couple of goal form the BUC paceful striker Sunil Subedi. He scored both goals for BUC on the through ball from Utsav KC. Both goals are similar to one another with the beautifully crafted through ball from Utasv KC and Sunil used his pace to get pass the NRT defense to score both goals. Absolutely a cracker game.

Score: BUC 2 – 0 NRT
Scorer: Sunil Subedi (2)
Possession: NRT (60%) BUC (40%)
Man of the Match: Sunil Subedi (BUC)

Match No 11: Three Star Club (TSC) Vs Kathmandu Club (KC)
Kathmandu Club of history against TSC that KC have drawn all the previous games played with TSC in the league in past years. So this year TSC is the main contender for the title and they are praying that KC won’t repeat the history again. They took Lead in 20 minute through Surendra Tamang. But in 45 minute National team custodian couldn’t judge a long ranger from Madhav KC of Kathmandu Club and resulted on the back of the net. After Kathmandu Club got the equalizer they could not defend so Janak Singh made it 2 – 1 for the TSC on the injury time of first half. So the history didn’t repeat for KC but they certainly gave a hard time for TSC defenders.

Score: TSC 2 – 1 KC
Scorer: Madhav KC (KC) Surendra Tamang, Janak Singh (TSC)
Man of the Match: Janak Singh (TSC)

Match No 12: Friends Club (FC) Vs Ranipokhari Corner Team (RCT)
After RCT draw their first game of the league with Sankata, they started the match with different intension. But both RCT and FC cannot attack with purpose. Ball was mostly on the middle of the field. Both clubs seems like they are afraid of going forward. So one of the boring game of the league. Sajan Shrestha of RCT played well and his shots hit bar on two occasion. Binod Shshi got yellow card on top if his yellow card on last match’s yellow. So he will miss next match.

Score: RCT 0 – 0 FC
Man of the Match: Sajan Shrestha (RCT)

Match no 13: Sankata Club Vs Jawlakhel Youth Club (JYC)
JYC, the multi rupees side of the JYC have to settle down 1 – 1  draw with Sankata. Sankata were far more better side than JYC. The result would have been different if they couldn’t have missed penalty. Raj Kumar KC missed penalty for Sankata. But Sankata were able to keep pressure in JYC. But it was JYC who scored first. Gaurav Thapa scored on his second goal on second match for JYC and They took the lead. But Sankata free forward for the equalizer and they got it through Jibesh Pandey. He scored the superb header from a cross from Sunil Tuladhar. Certainly it is the most busiest match for the referee. The match played on high temper and all the players involved on the brawl just before half time and referee have to show TWO red cards for Jay Thapa (JYC) and Pravin Manandhar (Sankata).

Score: Sankata 1 – 1 JYC
Scorer: Gaurav Thapa (JYC) Jibesh Pandey (Sankata)
Man of the Match: Gaurav Thapa (JYC)

By: Dinesh Thapa @ Dasarath Rangasala
football_nepal@yahoo.com