The fourth day of the quarter final league match at Malayala Manorama Gold Cup ended in an exciting draw with HAL coming back from a 2 goal deficit to hold Vasco Sports Club Goa in the second half.
Image not recovered: Malayala Manorama Gold Cup MalappuramThe Goans started attacking from the very beginning of the play and managed to score in the 9th minute. Sibra Narzary found the net after he was set free by a splendid through ball from Koko Sakibo.
Vasco added another one in 32nd minute, this time striker Prashanta Chakraborthy finished off after playing a one-two pass with Koko Sakibo.
After conceeding two goals in the first half, HAL players woke up and made more attempts on the Goan goal. They finally succeeded in returning one goal at the 73rd minute by substitute and in-form Xavier Vijayakumar.
HAL kept fighting hard and later found the much needed equalizer at the 85th minute by a strike from Nigerian striker Fedrick Okwagbe.
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Friday 15 January 2010, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.