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Sporting Clube de Goa was held to their second consecutive draw in the Goa Pro League, this time by Calangute Association at the Duler Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. With this draw Sporting Goa and Calangute Association stay put at fifth and sixth position respectively sharing five points each.
The initial quarter of first half saw Calangute Association press hard to get the early goal. They maintained early pressure on the Sporting Goa’s back four who showed true character to keep the danger off their nets. In the 3rd minute Calangute Association had their first good look at the Sporting Goa nets when a Kouame Joseph corner found Valerio Rodrigues at the right spot whose powerful header was saved by the woodwork. In the 21st minute Sporting Goa got a good opportunity when Quan Gomes from the far corner picked out Loveday Enyinnaya within a populated box, the skipper headed the ball straight to Glan Martins for powerful header, the woodwork returned the favour this time denying the Flaming Oranje a certain goal. The best opportunity for Sporting Goa came in the 37th minute when Quan got hold of a loose ball in the mid and struck it clinically but missed it by inches. It stayed goalless at the end of the first half.
In the second half it was Sporting Goa’s turn to intensify things, Gaffer Mateus Costa introduced Marcus Mascarenhas and Mauvin Borges were hoping to salvage something from their pace. Quan was once again in the thick of affairs when he received a good ball from Mauvin in the right to send in a curling shot which missed the nets by a whisker. In the 65th minute Calangute Assocation’s Agnelo Colaco set up Pedro Gonsalves with a brilliant cross but the latter’s strike went screaming past the Sporting Goa nets.
Sporting Goa had their best moment of the match in the 79th minute when Marcus send Victorino with a good ball right in front of the goal however the Flaming Oranje striker’s full length dive fell inches short of connecting the ball. In the final quarter Sporting Goa threw everything in their arsenal trying to get a result here but couldn’t make a difference before the final whistle as the match ended goalless.
