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Al Orouba beat East Bengal in AFC Cup

Posted on 25/04/12 by Kingfisher East Bengal

East Bengal lost to Al Orouba of Yemen by 1-4 margin in the Group B AFC Cup match played today at Prince Mohammed International  Stadium, Jordan.


Paul Effiong Duke scored a brace while Abdellah Sharyan and Yaser Al-Gabr netted the other goals for the Yemeni side. Edmilson Marques scored the lone goal for the red & golds.


Al Orouba scored the first goal in the sixth minute six minute as Duke's free-kick was too good for East Bengal goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh. And Gurpreet  was beaten again by another Duke free-kick 11 minutes before the break as the Nigerian midfielder picked out the top corner with another expertly executed set-piece.

 

After starting the match with a negative goal difference, Al Orouba finally added a third a minute before the hour mark as an unmarked Abdellah Sharyan  slotted  home from close range.

 

Al Orouba scored their  fourth after 71 minutes as the Saikat Saha Roy clearance from almost near the goalline landed on the feet of Al Gabr who took full advantage to fire home through a melly.

For East Bengal striker Edmilson, who came on at half-time, beat Al Orouba goalkeeper Muaadh Abdulkhaleq from inside the area to record a first goal of the campaign for the red & golds.


East Bengal’s Penn Orji & Subodh Kumar got Yellow Cards in the match.


KINGFISHER EAST BENGAL: Naoba Singh (Saikat Saha Roy), Gurwinder Singh, Uga Okpara, Saumik Dey, Sanju Pradhan (Edmilson Marques), Mehtab Hossain, Penn Orji, Subodh Kumar, Robin Singh (Baljit Singh Sahni), Tolgay Ozbey


POST MATCH CONFERENCE


Al Orouba coach Mohammed Saleh  -  "We had a good performance in the game and we achieved our target which was the three points. We should have scored more goals but we were not lucky in the second period."

"East Bengal were a good team not only in this match but in the previous matches as well as they showed good performances and made it hard for the other teams and we are glad to get the three points against them with such a big result."


Kingfisher East Bengal coach Trevor Morgan - "The better side won today as our opponents had a good performance while we were not lucky in defence and we conceded four goals, including two goals in the first half, which ended the game early." 

"We conceded goals from free kicks and from different chances as the marking was not good from our side. Our defence was not at its best and we paid for that."


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