Kingfisher East Bengal thrashed Sporting Clube de Goa by 3-0 margin in the I League match played today afternoon at the Salt Lake Stadium.

Sanju Pradhan (76’), Tolgay Ozbey (77’) and Robin Singh (81’) scored for the red & golds.

East Bengal started with Edmilson Marques Parrdal instead of in form striker Tolgay Ozbey who started on the bench.

The evenly balanced half saw both the teams muffing numerous chances. The red and gold came very close to take the lead in 31st minute but Edmilson attempt off a corner was saved by Sporting custodian Ashok Singh. Much to the disappointment of East Bengal fans the half ended goalless.

Changing over, East Bengal started dominating the visitors. In the 54th minute Edmilson was replaced by Tolgay.

Finally the deadlock ended in the 76th minute when Sanju Pradhan in an solo attempt blasted home the first goal from outside the box. Minute later Sporting Clube defence was caught off guard when on a perfectly placed pass by Sanju found Tolgay who made no mistake to give two goal advantage.

In the 81st minute East Bengal scored third goal when Ashok Singh brought down Robin Singh inside the box. Robin easily slotted home to make it 3-0.

East Bengal’s Sanju Pradhan was adjudged Man-of-the-match.

With this win East Bengal now have 48 points from 25 matches.

KINGFISHER EAST BENGAL:  Sandip Nandi, Nirmal Chettri, Raju Gaikwad, Uga Okpara, Robert Lalthlamuana, Subodh Kumar (Sanju Pradhan), Mehtab Hossain, Penn Orji, Harmanjot Singh Khabra (Khan Thang Paite), Robin Singh, Edmilson Marques (Tolgay Ozbey)