The fourth EK Nayanar Gold Cup football tournament will kick off at the EMS Stadium, Kozhikode on Friday. Former Indian international footballer Makhan Singh will inaugurate the tournament at 06:00 PM in the evening and the first match between the Kerala XI and I-League side Air India FC will be played under the floodlights.
Final Score:
Kerala XI 2-2 Air India
Goals: R Kannan (20′), Anagh PK (86′) – Prakash Thorat (47′, 76′)
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Live Commentary:
It’s full time here. Kerala XI and Air India share points!
90+2′ – Kerala’s penalty shout turned down by referee as Firoz goes down in the box
Kerala looking to win it in this dying moments.
90′ – Kerala’s Shibnlal balloons it over the goal!
86′ – GOAL: Kerala XI equalises. What a game. It’s defender Anagh who scores the second. Kerala 2-2 Air India
83′ – Air India holding onto the possession here, looks like they are in no hurry!
79′ – Substitution: Daison Devadas OFF; Shibinlal ON. (Kerala XI)
78′ – Substitution: Muhammed Shafi OFF; Soccor Vehto ON (Air India)
76′ – GOAL. Air India takes a deserved lead. Henry gets past the keeper and crosses it for Prakash Thorat to head it into an unguarded goal. Kerala XI 1-2 Air India
72′ – Kerala squanders a goal scoring opportunity!
66′ – Substitution: Usman OFF; Firoz ON (Kerala XI)
63′ – Prakash gets the ball from Ezeh Henry and advances to goal, Kerala goalkeeper Joby challenges for the ball, but Prakash manages to lift ball over keeper to goal. But referee blows for a foul on the keeper.
59′ – Kerala’s Sharath BT goes down injured and is receiving treatment!
54′ – Air India in total control at the moment. They look likely to score any moment.
49′ – Ezeh Henry misses two opportunities in a row. First his shot goes wide and then, his close ranger from Pakash’s cross goes inches wide!
47′ – GOAL: Prakash Thorat equalises for Air India early in the second half. Air Inida 1-1 Kerala XI
46′ – Second half begins. Kerala wins a corner but nothing comes of it.
It’s half time at Kozhikode, Kerala team dominating the match s far with Air India getting a couple of good chances to equalise.
45+1′ – Air India’s Allan Dias hits the post yet again for the visitors.
43′ – Surjith produces a good freekick into the Air India box, two Kerala players jumps for it, but can’t get to the ball. It rolls out of play!
40′ – Royston D’souza’s free kick is dealt well by Kerala defence.
34′ – Prakash Thorat dribbles past Kerala defenders and getts a good shot on target!
27′ – Air India threatens to equalise as Mohammed Shafi’s cross goes across the goal, but no one takes the chance.
20′ – GOAL: Kerala takes the lead. It’s R Kannan who heads it in and has taken his good form from the last season’s Santosh Trophy into this match. Kerala 1-0 Air India.
15′ – Muhammed Rasi advances with the ball into the Air India goal and crosses it across the goal, but Air India defence clears.
13′ – Oken Singh gets a cross in but Joby Joseph collects it.
10′ – Sandesh Gadkari gets the ball to the right wing and takes a shot on goal! But the defender blocks it and clears away from the danger
5′ – Kerala wins the first corner of the match**.
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1′ – Air India strikes the post from their first move.
A decent crowd here at the Corporation Stadium, Kozhikode. This is much better than the ones we saw for I-League matches at Kochi and Trivandrum this season.
Team Lists:
Kerala XI:
Starting Eleven: Joby Joseph (Goalkeeper, Captain), Surjith VV, Sarath BT, Anagh BK, Askar CV, Mohammed Rasi, Daison Devadas, Rahul P, Sumesh N, Kannan R, Usman P
Substitutes: Noufal N, Nelto Sebastian, Shamil KV, Shibinlal, Nishad K, Nasrudheen C, Frioz
Head Coach: MM Jacob
Team Manager: C Dawood
Physio: Bipin Albert George
Air India FC:
Starting Eleven:Harshad Mehera (Goalkeeper), Allan Dias, Premkumar V, Oken Singh, Emmanuel Anoskie, Royston D’souza, Mohammed Shafi, Ezeh Henry (Captain), Prakash Thorat, Sandesh Gadkari, Manandeep Singh
Substitutes: Pavan Kumar, Bhuvan Chandra Joshi, Satwinder Singh, Takayuki Omi, Federic Endro, Soccor Vetho, Neil Gaikwad
Head Coach: Anthony Fernandez
Team Manager: Joginder Singh Thapa
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Friday 9 March 2012. The database copy of this article was lost; it was recovered in 2026 from the Internet Archive's saved copy of the live page.
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