FootballKerala.com brings you live commentary of the I-League 2010-11 match between Musli Power X-tra Viva Kerala and Kingfisher East Bengal on Tuesday from Jawahar Municipal Stadium, Kannur.

Viva Kerala 0-1 East Bengal
Venue: Jawahar Stadium, Kannur
Full time in progress

Goals: 41' Tolgay Ozbey (Kingfisher East bengal) Cards *85' Sandeep nandy (Yellow, Kingfisher East bengal)
65' Robin singh (Yellow, Kingfisher East bengal)
1' Shahin lal (Yellow, Viva Kerala FC)
*

Live commentary: Another defeat for Viva, who had chances to level the game. Tolgay is the Player of the match. East bengal played good attacking football with Robin and Tolgay producing the winning goal.
90+ Sunil on Oriji off.
90' Murugappan crosses the ball to Sabeeth, misses a close chance. Jved tries a shot but saved by Nandy.
87' Freekick for viva at the edge of the box, aimed at the right corner, but GK collects the ball.
85' Sandeep Nandy cautioned for time wasting.
78' Javed OK on for Felix, Tolgay off Balgit on. Viva on the attack.
65' Yellow card for Robin singh, for the foul on Charles.
62' Sanju plays Oriji penn on the side, is shot saved by Shahinlal
60' Charles plays a good ball into the box, flick by Sabeeth but off the target.
58' Sabeeth heads the ball to Murugappan, misses the shot.
58' Viva makes a change, Murugappan on for Anil kumar, he did not have a good game so far. Tolgay shoots and misses the target.
54' Tolgay runs from a through ball and crosses it to Oriji, he misses the shot
51' Sabeeth and Nandy goes for ball, sabeeth gets to it first and passes it to Felix, open goal to score, but the shot is way over. Miss of the match so far.
50' Orijis's cross to Robin singh, just unable to make contact with the ball.
47' Freekick for East begal, wasted by Sanju
45' And second half kicks off

And its Half time, a well placed match with EB going one up just before the HT break. Viva Kerala also created some chances. Well be back soon, for the second half.
45' Oriji Penn lays the ball to Susanth, again misses
41' Robin sing crosses to Tolgay, Heads and its a GOAL. East bengal goes one up in the closing minutes of first half.
40' Jimshad lays the ball to felix, doesn't react and Gurvinder takes the ball from him.
38' Sanju pradhan crosses to Robin singh, his header just misses the target.
34' Freekick conceded by Gurvinder singh, for foul on Sabeeth just outside the box. Felix's kick well saved by Nandy.
29' Ummer farooq plays Sabeeth free of defence, Nandy comes forward but fails to collect. Cleared by the EB defense.
26' Susanth plays a little one two with Robin singh, but the shot was not good enough to test the GK.
22' Naoba Singh runs throught the wing and crosses the ball but not met by any EB player.
20' Felix's long range effort is saved by Nandy
18' Corner for viva, Jimshad takes a shot but misses the target. Its still 0-0 here.
15' Sherin sam finding it hard at his new position RB.
13' Corner to viva, Jimshad takes and Charles tries to head it but misses it.
11' Tolgay fouled by Charles just outside the box, freekick to East bengal. Oriji penn takes it and straight to the defensive wall.
6' Oriji Penn takes the ball from Ummer and takes a shot only to be blocked by Charles.
2' East bengal starts out with strong attacking football, gets a corner.
1' Shahinlal (GK) gets the first card of the match for bringing down Robin singh. Gets away with yellow.
0' Match kicks off

Update:
Sajesh replaces Sadiq ali in the team line up.

Viva Kerala are without their right back Mrigank Sharma in this encounter against Kingfisher East Bengal. They will try the inexperienced Sadiq Ali in his place.

Viva Kerala have also signed a new player, Chandrashekhar, a free agent who represemted Salgaocar SC last season. He is a product of the Tata Football Academy and also has the experience of playing for Sporting Club de Goa in the National Football League.

Meanwhile for East Bengal, Tolgay Ozbey has returned to the starting eleven after a suspension in the last match, but Mehtab Hussain is to sit out in this match. Kerala born Sushanth Mathew will be representing the Kolkata club here and will be playing for the first time in Kerala with East Bengal.

TEAM LIST:

Musli Power X-tra Viva Kerala: Starting Eleven: Shahinlal Meloly (Goal Keeper), Sherin Sam, Charles Dzisah, Bello Razaq (Captain), Sajesh P, Ummer Farooque P, Anil Kumar PK, Jimshad U, Karma T,  Sabeeth CS, Felix Chiamokwu
Substitutes: Sharath K, Sajesh P, VR Murugappan, Mohammed Shafi, Sabeeth CS, Vineeth CK, Mohammed Muneer, Sadiqali VP
Coach: P Kunhikrishnan
Assistant Coach: Bino George
Team Manager: K Prashanthan

Kingfisher East Bengal Starting Eleven: Sandip Nandy (Goal Keeper), Saumik Dey(Captain), Naoba Singh, Uga Okpara, Gurvinder Singh, Sanju Pradhan, Harmanjoth Singh Khabra, Orji Penn, Sushanth Mathew, Tolgay Ozbey, Robin Singh
Substitutes: Jayanta Paul, Saikat Saha Roy*,* Sunil Kumar*,* Ravinder Singh, Rajib Ghosh, Baljith Sahni, Budiram Tadu Coach: James Trevor Morgan
Team Manager: Swapan Ball

From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Monday 17 January 2011, restored from the site's 2012 database. Text as originally published.