FULL TIME: Air India FC 5-1 Southern Samity | Nayanar Cup

**EK Nayanar Memorial Gold Cup 2012 – Semi Final 2:
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Final Scoe:
Air India FC 5-1 Southern Samity
Goals: Ezeh Henry (25′, 48′), Takayuki Omi (39′), Muhammed Shafi (43′), Royston D’Souza (62′) – Alfred Ndynge (66′)
Man of the match: Takayuki Omi

Venue: EMS Corporation Stadium, Kozhikode..

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**Substitutes:
**32′ – Habibur Rahman Mondal OFF; Rajib Ahmed ON (Southern Samity)
45′ – Sovan Chakroborty OFF; Babin Biswas ON (Southern Samity)
62′ – Lalrinfela OFF; Jamir Ali Mondal ON (Southern Samity)
64′ – Royston D’Souza OFF; Sandesh Gadkari ON (Air India FC)
74′ – Prakash Thorat OFF; Neil Gaikwad ON (Air India FC)
85′ – Soccor Vetho OFF; Manjit Singh ON (Air Inida FC)

Bookings:

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90′ – Four minutes added on!

89′ – Alfred Ndynge is in the box and shoots, but Pawan Kumar saves it with a dive!

88′ – Southern on attack again. Alfred Ndynge’s low free kick just flies past the left post

84′ – Suroj Mondal again hits a shot on goal but Pawan Kumar remains solid in front of the goal!

80′ – Zico Zoremsanga hits straight at Pawan Kumar from the close range!

75′ – Marcos Perriera’c cross into the box collected calmly by Air India custodian Pawan Kumar

69′ – Marcos Periera fouled at the edge of the box by Air India defence. Wins a free kick and takes it himself, goes just over the goal!

66′ – GOAL! Alfred Ndynge salvages some pride for Samity. He puts a corner into the back of the net! AI 5-1 SS.

62′ – GOALS GALORE!! Royston D’Souza gets the ball from Prakash Thorat and puts the ball into the right corner. Brilliant finishing skills displayed by Air India today. They have taken all their chances today! Air India 5-0 Southern Samity

60′ – Marcos Perreira free kick into Air India goal, headed towards goal by Suroj Mondal, but goes over!

58′ – Mohammed Shafi test the keeper from the edge of the box, the keeper blocks the shot

55′ – Good build up play by Henry and Takayuki Omi, but Celestine slides in and takes the ball off Henry.

53′ – Referee stops the game as Samity captain Echezona Celestine is down on the ground.

48′ – GOAL! Ezeh Henry finds Royston D’Souza on the right wing, who runs through the flank and crosses it to the centre for Henry to head it on to goal! AI 4-0 SS

46′ – Second half underway!

Half time now!

45+2′ – Prakash Thorat with a similar run into the box, but this time Samity keeper Avijit Ghosh gets a hand to it and saves!

45′ – Four minutes added on!

43′ – GOAL! Muhammed Shafi scores in front of his home crowd after receiving the ball from Prakash Thorat and blasting it past Samity keeper. AI 3-0 SS

39′ – GOAL! Takayuki Omi takes the ball from the half line, motors to the goal, gets inside the box and lifts the ball over the keeper to double Air India’s lead. AI 2-0 SS.

36′ – Corner kick won by Air India, aimed at Soccoe Vetho in the far post ho heads it over the goal line!

35′ – Royston releases Henry inside the box, but the referee has flagged for offside!

32′ – Samity’s Habibur Rahman Mondol goes down injured, and is replaced by Rajib Ahmed as the centre back!

28′ – Henry again with a chance, but his shot goes wide of the right post!

25′ – GOAL! Air India scores against the run of play. Ezeh Henry gets to the end of Royston D’Souza free kick and heads it in battling with Samity defender! Air India FC 1-0 Southern Samity

21′ – Southern Samity again hits the crossbar, this time Alfred Ndynge from 30 yards out! Air India yet to create a clear cut chance on goal!

19′ – Sovan Chakraborty tests the Air India keeper from distance as he tries to lob the ball over the custodian.

18′ – Possession with Samity. Now, they have won a free kick in the attacking half.

14′ – Southern Samity midfilder Sovan Chkraborty’s effort hits the crossbar!

12′ – Lalrinfela squares it for Suroj Mondal in the box, who misses the ball, but goalkeeper Pawan Kumar brought into action as the ball hits Air India defender Oken Singh and rolls onto own goal.

9 ‘- Lalrinfela shoots for Southern Samity, but goal keeper up to it!

3′ – Free kick for Air India, hits the defensive wall set up by Southern Samity!

1′ – Kick off

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Team Lists:

Air India FC:
*Starting Eleven:*Pawan Kumar (Goalkeeper),Oken Singh, Emmanuel Anoskie, Royston D’souza, Soccor Vetho, Mohammed Shafi, Ezeh Henry (Captain), Prakash Thorat, Takayuki Omi, Bhuvan Chandra Joshi, Ramandeep Singh
Substitutes: Harshad Mehera,  Satwinder Singh, Federic Endro, Neil Gaikwad, Allan Dias, Sandesh Gadkari, Manjit Singh
Head Coach: Anthony Fernandez
Team Manager: Joginder Singh Thapa

Southern Samity:*
Starting Eleven:* Avjit Ghosh (Goalkeeper), A Echezona Celestine (Captain), Habibur Rahaman Mondal, Gour Naskar, Mrigank Sharma, Sovan Chakraborty, Alfred Ndyenge, Zico Zoremsanga, Lalrin Fela, Suroj Mondal, Marcos Pereira
Substitutes:Abhujit Das,  Rajib Ahamed, Uken Debbarma, Manas Das, Thangsomi Ruivah, Jamir Ali Mondal, Manas Das
Head Coach: Shabbir Ali
Team Manager: Bhaskar Babu*
Physio:* Samir Chakraborty

Referee: C R Vijay
Assistant referees: C Leo, Aley Costa
Fourth Official: Ratheesh Kumar
Match Commissioner: Sethumadhvana C

From the archive. First published on footballkerala.com on Sunday 18 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.