Kickstart back to winning ways against Odisha Police

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Kickstart FC picked up a convincing 2-0 win over Odisha Police in the Hero Indian Women’s League 2022 on Monday, May 2,2022 at the 7th Battalion Stadium.

The Karnataka based club were on the front foot right from the beginning. They came twice close to scoring but Phanjoubam Nirmala Devi and Thingbaijam Babysana Devi could not capitalize on the opportunities.

In the 29th minute, Asem Roja Devi found a breakthrough and pulled the trigger from close range. However, the referee blew her whistle for offside and the scoreline remained unchanged. 

Before the half-time whistle, Roja Devi, Babysana Devi and Lochana Munda all came close to scoring, but missed their target by a whisker. Following the restart, Kickstart finally took the lead via Irom Prameshwori Devi in the 54th minute. The forward drove a shot from close range and found the back of the net to make it 1-0.

In quick fire succession, substitute Yangoijam Kiranbala Chanu made it 2-0 for Kickstart FC. The forward low shot from inside the box could not be saved by Odisha Police goalkeeper Rajeswari Das. At the hour mark, however, Das went on to make a wonderful save off Yumlembam Pakpi Devi’s close range shot.

Odisha Police could not come back with any goals before full time and the game ended 2-0 in Kickstart’s favour.

 

Kickstart FC take on Odisha Police today

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The Karnataka side Kickstart FC is all set to take on Odisha Police tomorrow (May 02, 2022) in the Hero Indian Women’s League at the 7th Battalion Stadium. Both the teams will eye full points as they come from the loss in their last matches.

Kickstart head coach Amrutha said, “Odisha Police also have a better side with experienced players and an experienced coach. So we have to give our 100% and we have prepared to do the same.”

The Kickstart gaffer is satisfied with the team’s campaign as she said, “Yes, our team has performed well and we had a little mistake while defending in the last matçh. Now we are working on that and ready to solve that area also.”

Odisha Police head coach Shradhanjali Samantaray urges her team to come up with a winning mentality while facing Kickstart FC. She said, “We will be playing against Kickstart which is one of the balanced team and we have to keep the possession and keep the winning mentality.”

Odisha will go all out to snatch full points as their gaffer echoed, “The approach will be to get full points from the game.”

Quizzed about her team’s campaign so far in the HIWL coach Samantaray seemed quite unsatisfied. She said, “No, we are not happy with our performance and lots of injuries have affected the team. Injury is the biggest concern in our team.”

Kenkre ride on Soumya hat-trick to register win over Odisha Police, Baroda FC cruise past BBK DAV

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Kenkre FC overcame Odisha Police by an overwhelming margin of 4-1 at the Bangalore Football Stadium in the Garden City today (January 25, 2020). Skipper Soumya Guguloth (25', 39', 69') scored a fantastic hat-trick alongside Samiksha (45'+1') to take an unassailable 4-0 lead for Kenkre FC before Jabamani Soren (87') scored one late goal for Odisha Police.

In the second game of the day, Baroda Football Academy registered a stunning 3-0 victory over Punjab’s BBK DAV Football Club. BBK’s Mahima Bishnoi scored an unfortunate own goal before Sushmita Lepcha and Akanksha Kandalkar wrapped up the three points for Baroda.