Emphatic wins for Indonesian, Chhattisgarh boys in Subroto Cup

Indonesia's Daftar Nama Kontingen boys defeated Delhi Public School from Haryana 7-0, while the outfit from Chhattisgarh's St Xavier's Higher Secondary School beat Lakshadweep's school by the same margin to close in on a quarterfinal berth in the Junior Boys (Under-17) category of the 56th Subroto Cup football tournament here today.
With the two teams forming part of the same pool, they are aware that only one can go through to the knockout stage. Hence there was some urgency as well as a pattern to their scoring against their opponents.
It will be interesting to know which of the two makes the cut as both have a match in hand tomorrow. Even otherwise, things will be clear only after the second phase of pool engagements come to an end.

The Panipat boys resigned to their fate even before their opponents scored their first goal in the eighth minute by Raka Askara. The drooping shoulders of Haryana team members and the posture said it all.
As if on cue, the Indonesians continued their onslaught as Rizky A W scored four minutes after to consolidate their position.
After the interval, the Indonesians were even more attacking and it resulted in five goals coming in this session.

Rizky started it all with a goal in the 39th minute and followed it up with another in the next minute to complete a hat-trick. Egi Maulana, substitute Dedi Tri Maulana and Kader Raditya scored once each soon after Rizky to demolish Haryana.

Chhattisgarh boys, too, followed the pattern at the distant NWC ground and struck two in the first half and added five in the second.
In a pool E match, Tripura Sports School, Agartala, defeated TAFS 6-0.