Renown beat Ratnam 2-1 at ‘Super League’

Renown concluded their final tournament fixture on a winning note when they edged out Ratnam by 2 goals to 1 in the ‘Super League’ Soccer Tournament at Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday.

The scoreline is no indication of the total dominance by the winners, who bamboozled their rivals in all departments to end their campaign with a resounding victory. Renown who are slotted in third place on the league points table were a very mediocre team at the inception of this tourney but bounced back gallantly after coach Imran Mohamed took over the reins. They took some time to settle down as a team but later started winning.

This was their fifth win of the tournament, losing two and two games ending in a draw. In this game, they had several more scoring opportunities, but their strikers failed to capitalise. Defender Dimurhu Priyadarshana made the initial scoring for them in the 31 minutes of the first half to retain this scoreline at the breather.

After the turnaround, both teams fought hard and Renown surged ahead in an attempt to increase their lead, while their hometown rivals Ratnam hunted for their maiden goal. Danso Enoch of Ratnam accelerated ahead and scored to level the scoreline one-all.

With this goal, the match took a different complexion as both teams went all out to boot the winning goal. Eventually, Renown’s O.Job Michael broke through the rival defence to increase their lead and seal the game in their way with a 2-1 victory.

Defenders crush New Young 6-1

Meanwhile, Mohamed Issadeen scored a hat trick of goals for Defenders to crush New Young by 6 goals to one after leading 2-1 at halftime. Apart from him, Rifkhan Mohamed scored two and the other goal came as an own goal. M. Mushikhan scored for losers.

In today’s fixtures, Colombo FC will take on Sea-Hawks at Race Course while Blue Star will confront Blue Eagles at Sugathadasa Stadium. Both matches will kick off at 3.30 p.m.