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ISL: Hosts Bengaluru FC Beat FC Goa 2-0 In First-Leg Semifinal

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The Bengaluru FC hosts won the top against FC Goa with a 2-0 commander victory in the Indian Super League semi-finals in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The Blues will go into the second game of this match with an aggregate of 2-0 in their favor, when they gathered the procedure in this match with five target shots despite only 42.2% of the possession of the ball. Odei Onaindia dropped a free kick in the depths of the Bengaluru FC box and delivered a pass to the head of Udanta Singh on the right to produce the first reasonable attack movement in the match in the 27th minute. The striker was unleashed an idiotic shot that was blocked near the goal.

The Blues put the breakthrough in the 42nd minute with Edgar Mendez leading the charge for them thanks to his coherent side deliveries. Such an incisive cross, directed for the Williams of Onrushing in the center, was rather affected and hammered by the defender of FC Goa Sandesh Jhingan, resulting in its own goal judged in his name.

Williams made the favor in the 51st minute when he added dynamism to an offensive movement of Bengaluru FC through a smooth pass which pierced the back line of the gauges in one time and landed at the feet of Namgyal Bhutia. The latter square in a low cross for Mendez and the attacker did light work with a simple carpet in the lower right corner, which made it possible to double their advance.

FC Goa had their chances in the last quarter of the match, while Akash Sangwan curled up in a perfectly weighted cross for Onaindia in the 76th minute, which the defender was headed well above the target despite his positioning inside the six yard box.

Boris Singh forced Gurpreet Singh Sandhu to make a hand -stretched backup seven minutes later, while the Indian striker received a pass from Iker Guarrotxena by the box and immediately targeted for the upper right corner.

Sandhu quickly spotted the attacking sequence and made a timely effort to keep the cheerfulness from a distance.

(With the exception of the title, this story has not been published by NDTV staff and is published from a unionized flow.)

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