Manipur meets Services for semifinal at Santosh Trophy

Manipur will meet Services for semifinal on 26 May 2011 at the 65th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy 2010-11 .

Last Year's Finalist Punjab sinks without a single win, same goes with Semi finalist Goa..This arises a Big Question, Why would the four Semi Finalist begin the campaign from the Quarters when out of the four only one could qualify for the semis?

Railways shines undefeated while service makes into the semis with just because they scored 2 goals more than the other two teams.

Today's Results:

Goa 1-1 Punjab
Railways 2-1 Services


Impressive Railways continued their winning streak and made their way into the last four of the 65th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy after defeating Services 2-1 in their last quarterfinal league match on Tuesday.

But despite suffering a defeat at the hands of Railways, Services pipped Goa and Punjab on superior goal difference to become the second team to qualify for the semifinals after Goa and Punjab played out a 1-1 draw in the last quarterfinal match of Group B, at the Nehru Stadium.

Railways finished top of the Group B table with 9 points, while Services, Punjab and Goa finished with two points in their kitty.




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