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Airmen beat Saunders 2-1 rise to top spot

Sri Lanka Air Force came back to form and registered an important victory against Saunders SC 2-1 in a Group `A' match of the Dialog Champions League soccer tournament conducted by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka played at the City Football League grounds yesterday. For Air Force it is a fine comeback after the defeat against Renown in the earlier match. With this close win Air Force take the top spot with a points from four matches.

The winners showed their supremacy with better technical style to overpower the strong Saunders SC outfit.

After a good move by the midfielders Saunders SC surged ahead in the 4th minute through their ace player Dilan Kaushalya de Silva who dribbled past two defenders and doged the advancing goalkeeper to drive the ball into net from a very acute angle.

Airmen settled down to play better and broke the Saunders SC defence with a good combined effort. In the 20th minute Kalum Perera after receiving a regular inward pass and hit the net to make 1-all. After the equaliser the tempo of the game increased and four players were booked (yellow card) for rough and foul play.

At half time the score stood at 1-all Air Force had number of scoring opportunities after the break and their strikers were not prominent.

In a ding dong battle for the winning goal both sides played an attacking style of football. But to the surprise of everyone Air Force received a `gift' goal in the 62nd minute. Jayasundera's free kick landed into the goal area and in a mix up the ball went straight into the hands of the goal keeper Asanga Viraj who completely failed to gather the ball correctly.

Saunders SC custodian should take the full blame for letting go the all important goal which was a very costly one to his team.

Referee: Priyanka Pieris

 

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