Three time champions Dempo are now the new league leaders after an easy 4-1 victory over newly promoted Shillong Lajong at Goa's Nehru Stadium on Sunday evening while East Bengal managed to hold high flying JCT to a goalless draw at Kolkata
Sunil Chhetri scored a brace while Beto and Anthony Fernandes found the net for Dempo. Shillong Lajong's consolation goal came from the foreign player from James Giblee.
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Sunday 11 October 2009, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.