Oil India lift trophy

Bordoloi Trophy

The Oil India Football Club team members celebrate with the winners’ trophy at Nehru Stadium on Sunday. Picture by Eastern Projections

Guwahati, Dec 29 : Oil India Football Club, Duliajan, annexed the 57th Bharat Ratna Lokapriya Bordoloi Trophy football tournament title blanking Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) Sports Club, Guwahati, 3-0 in the final played under flood lights at Nehru Stadium here this evening.

After a goalless 90-minute regulation time, the match was decided with all the three goals scored in the second 15-minutes of extra time.

Foreign recruit Okwuelum Ezekiel drew first blood in the 21st minute of the extra time.

He made no mistake in heading in a Mintu Boro centre from top of the goalbox.

Mintu Boro consolidated the lead in the 24th minute with solo efforts. 

Seasoned medio H.L. Routa hammered in the last nail into ASEB’s coffin in the 28th minute of extra time. He shot home the stunner during a goalmouth melee.

Earlier in a evenly-poised match during regulation time, both the ASEB and Oil India outfits made several breakthroughs into each other’s territories but could not reap any benefits because of the superb performance of the custodians and defenders. 

Oil India dominated the first half, while the second half saw ASEB dominating the proceedings.

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Oil India in final

Lajong FC, Shillong, sink to 1-3 defeat in second semis

Bordoloi Trophy

Under the lights: A moment from the match played between Oil India and Lajong FC at Nehru Stadium in Guwahati on Friday. Picture by Eastern Projections Guwahati, Dec 27 : Former champions Oil India Football Club, Duliajan, marched into the final of the 57th Bharat Ratna Lokapriya Bordoloi Trophy football tournament defeating Lajong FC, Shillong, 3-1 in the second flood-lit semi-final at Nehru Stadium here this evening. The first 30 minutes of the match was an evenly contested affair till it was interrupted for about 23 minutes because of a power failure and a drizzle. When the match resumed, the Duliajan men gained the upper hand and Durga Boro fashioned the lead in the 36th minute with a shot from inside the goalbox off a pass from Zaidin Hmar. Oil India led 1-0 at half time. In the second session, the Lajong players regrouped with an attempt to restore parity. However, they were soon punched onto the backfoot as Oil India’s foreign recruit Okwuelum Ezekiel ruffled the net with a spectacular shot off a Mintu Boro centre in the 49th minute. Conceding the second goal, the Lajong men once again went on the offensive and were successful in scoring a goal with Rocy Rameng Mawia finding the net with a header off a Niwa-o-Gatphom centre in the 62nd minute. The celebration in the Shillong bench was short lived as Durga Boro struck again for Oil India just one minute later. He pushed a well-placed ground pass from Mintu Boro into the D box to beat the opponent custodian R. Lalthuam Mawia with ease. Oil India could have won the match by a bigger margin if Durga Boro could have struck for more on two occasions in the last few minutes of the match. Oil India will now face Assam State Electricity Board SC, Guwahati, in the final on Sunday evening. ASEB yesterday defeated Assam Rifles, Tezpur, 3-1 in the first semi-final.

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Lajong eliminate ASRF from Bordoloi Trophy

Guwahati, Dec 22 : With two consecutive defeats in the quarterfinal league, the 2nd Assam Special Reserve Force (ASRF) of Diphu were eliminated from the 57th Bordoloi Trophy Tournament.

In their group A match at the Nehru Stadium here today, Shillong outfit Lajong Football Club routed the Diphu cops 7-0. Earlier ASEB defeated ASRF 3-0 in the opening match of the quarterfinal stage.

The vital point of the match was a hat trick by Lajong striker Rocky Rameng Mawia who scored the second, third and the fourth goal of the match.

In the completely one-sided affair, the Shillong boys took control of the situation from the word go and opened the flood gate in the seventh minute. Taking advantage of the disorganized ASRF defense line, the Lajong frontliners – Rocky, James Gbille and Rohmingthanga jumped into attack and tore apart the opponent’s fort with a series of forays.

Although the Shillong team had to wait for some time after the first goal, Rockey fired three salvoes in the 31st, 42nd and 54th minutes to register his hat trick. After the comfortable 4-0 lead, Lajong attackers were not in a mood to lose the rein and scored three more. James (57th minute), Sachin Khongsit (68th minute) and Rohmingthanga (71st minute) completed the drubbing as ASRF defenders-Mridul Gogoi, Deba Mech, Bolen Ramchiary and Gokul Brahma miserably failed to resist the fast moving and well-combined Shillong attackers.

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