Bedia Misses
We are back!!!!
46' Somehow, somehow, only Bedia knows how, the ball has dropped on to the crossbar when anything else could’ve happened!! Brilliant play and from the edge of the box, he takes his shot.
FC Goa players celebrate at the podium after winning the 2019 Hero Super Cup in Bhubaneswar. Get highlights and analysis of the FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC Hero Super Cup final below.
FC Goa are the 2019 Hero Super Cup champions. The Indian Super League (ISL) side beat Chennaiyin FC 2-1 with strikes from Ferran Corominas and Brandon Fernandes taking them over the line in Bhubaneswar on April 13. Rafael Augusto scored for Chennaiyin. In the first half, Chennaiyin did all the attacking, while FC Goa sat back. However, the scores remained 0-0. (Get highlights and analysis of the FC Goa vs Chennaiyin FC Hero Super Cup final below)
We are back!!!!
46' Somehow, somehow, only Bedia knows how, the ball has dropped on to the crossbar when anything else could’ve happened!! Brilliant play and from the edge of the box, he takes his shot.
48' SCOROMINAS!!!!! Boumous shoots at Chennaiyin’s goal from a quick release, and Karanjit saves. Off the rebound, Corominas scorominas. Goa 1-0 CFC
One nil. Game on. Or rather game off. Because Chennaiyin aren’t exactly the team that come back into a game. But this could get exciting.
53' Chennaiyin have levelled. And how. A quickly taken free kick. Smartly played wide, slight deflection. Raphael Augusto levels. That's how they had to do it and they have!! This is now erm, game on.
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63’ And we have our first goal on the projector!!!! Brandon scores!! Goa have the lead again, 2-1. Coro plays an absolute peach of a ball to him and Brandon squeezes it in superbly under Karanjit, beating Mailson to the punch. What a goal to take the lead from.
Chennaiyin make a substitution. Thoi comes on for, Francis, who has been a bit invisible it must be said.
Arjun Pandit gives us a valuable bit of gossip, saying FC Goa haven’t been able to tie Corominas to a long contract yet. Based on his performance in the Super Cup, they should throw the bank at him.
72’ Brandon Fernandes is played on, buy another brilliant through ball and to run through easily, but his first touch takes him too wide, and Mailson clears it away.
Arjun says, he was scared off the ball. And it's hard to argue. He could’ve put his ball on the line.
74' Goa have really come into the game. But they are also leaving open spaces at the back for Chennaiyin to capitalise. Which they cant because their passing is erratic.
76’ Some brilliant one-two between Coro and Edu Bedia gives Bedia a chance to shoot, he opens his body up looking to curl it to the far post, but too close to Karanjit.
77’ If Goa have any wherewithal they should just pass this game out. Seriously. Just relax. Pass, and play.
80’ Vineeth is caught offside. He is known to score late goals, and this makes Gregory’s job very tough. He has to change something. Jeje?
83’ The ball ends up in the back of the Goa goal. But the ref has pulled it back for a foul. No luck.
84’ The last time Goa won a football title it was in 2012-13, when a young Sunil Chhetri came back from a Sporting Lisbon loan to take them to the title. The streets were celebrating that I-League title. And if these boys can hold on for the next six minutes (and added time), then there’s a party on in Goa tonight.
85’ There’s a party on in Goa every night. Several in fact.
86’ Goa have decided that he best form of defence is attack. And they are taking it so seriously that Chennaiyin are finding it difficult to get out of their own half right now.
87’ Goa substitution. Boumous off and Krouch on. Boumous has put in a superb shift today. Bedia has been preferred over him most of the season, but when he’s had a chance he’s grabbed it. Good play.
SIX MINUTES OF INJURY TIME! Goa must be sweating!!
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