MEG Bangalore and BN Railways go head to head to decide who will be the second team from Group A to enter the semi finals of the Fourth EK Nayanar Memorial Gold Cup 2012. A draw will be enough for MEG Bangalore (3 points) to progress, while BN (1 point) needs a win to enter the semi finals.
Final Score:
MEG Bangalore 0-1 N Railways
Goals: Pratim Sarkar (57′)
Man of the Match: Akhil Raj Banshi
Venue: EMS Corporation Stadium, Kozhikode
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Major Events:
FULL TIME: MEG 0-1 BN Railways. BN Railways are through to the semi finals, as MEG crashes out!
89′ – Substitution: Lokeshwar Singh OFF; Amith Shah ON (MEG Bangalore)
88′ – RED CARD: MEG goalkeeper Sharath Narayan sent off for handling the ball outside the box! MEG down to 10 men!
80′ – Still 1-0 to BN. Looks like the Kolkata team will go through to the semi finals. But, MEG with a flourish in the last minutes of the game!
57′ – GOAL: BN Railways takes the lead through Pratim Sarkar. If it stays the same, BN goes through. MEG needs to hit back!
50′ – Substitution: Eric OFF; Ajay Saha ON (BN Railways)
46′ – Second half underway!
Half time. Nothing much happened in the first half except a lot of offside calls by the assistant referees!
45′ – Two minutes added on!
32′ – Half an hour into the game and still 0-0. BN Railways has had a few attacks, but no goals yet.
20′ – Dull match so far..
1′ – Kick off.
Delay in kick off as the floodlights in the stadium fails! But we are back on course, awaiting kick off.
Team Lists:
MEG Bangalore:
Starting Eleven: SharathNarayan (Goalkeeper), Shiyad AS, Suman Kumar, Girish VK (Captain), Vineet, Ramu V, Ajiraj Philip, Aiyappa, Dipen Thapa, Lokeshwar Singh, Hmar Nguernilal
Substitutes: Amith Shah, Gabriel, Govind M, S Ali, Johnson T, Chiranjit, Akosh RC
Head Coach: SP Shaji
BN Railways Kolkata:
Starting Eleven: Ganesh Singh (Goalkeeper), Sujith Ghosh, Akhil Raj Banshi, Shyam Mondal, Soumik Roy, Dhimal Sinha, , Felix, Pratim Sarkar, , Christian, Asim Das (captain), Eric,
Substitutes: Subhash Ghosh, Barun Kundo, Bimel Sarkar, Sudip Sanjra, Ajay Saha, Sujit Malo
Head Coach: TB Roy Choudhary, Novanjal Bhandopadhyay
Team Manager: SP Singh
Referee: Adley Costa
From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Thursday 15 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.