FC Pune City took on FC Goa in their first Hero Indian Super League (ISL) home game at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Stadium on Sunday.
The home side opened the score sheet in th 42nd minute when Greek World Cupper Kostas Katsouranis fired home a great shot from the right side into the FC Goa goal past goalkeeper Laxmikant Kattimani.
Brazilian André Santos had the best chance to equalise for FC Goa, but his shot hit the crossbar before going wide. Bruno Pinheiro tested Pune City goalkeeper Emanuele Belardi with a shot, while Narayan Das failed to take advantage of the rebound.
French star David Trezeguet scored the hosts’ second goal to the delight of the home crowd. Trezeguet was quick to react on an error by Grégory Arnolin and the striker hit the target with a fine strike.
FC Pune City didn’t give away their 2-0 lead to secure three points from their first game at home.
2014 Hero Indian Super League
at Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Stadium, Pune
FC PUNE CITY 2-0 FC GOA
GOALS
1-0 Kostas Katsouranis (42′)
2-0 David Trezeguet (81′)
LINE-UPS
FC Pune City
25 Emanuele Belardi – 12 Anupam Sarkar, 13 Dharmaraj Ravanan, 5 Bruno Cirillo (87′ 2 Andres Felipe Gonzalez), 4 Daniele Magliocchetti – 11 Ashutosh Mehta (77′ 26 Merajuddin Wadoo), 24 Lenny Rodrigues, 21 Kostas Katsouranis, 14 Israil Gurung – 20 Iván Bolado Palacios (83′ 10 John Goossens), 17 David Trezeguet [C]
Unused Subs
27 Arindam Bhattcharya – 6 Manish Maithani, 8 Tapan Maity, 9 Davide Colomba, 18 Saïdou Mady Panandétiguiri, 19 Pritam Kotal, 23 Dudu Omagbemi
FC Goa
21 Laxmikant Kattimani – 2 Debabrata Roy, 15 Grégory Arnolin [C], 5 Youness Bengelloun, 3 Narayan Das – 14 Gabriel Fernandes (16′ 19 Romeo Fernandes), 16 Bruno Pinheiro, 6 Peter Carvalho, 27 André Santos – 25 Ranti Martins Soleye (60′ 20 Miroslav Slepička), 9 Miguel Herlein (76′ 18 Zohib Islam Amiri)
Unused Subs
1 Jan Šeda – 4 Rowilson Rodrigues, 8 Alwyn George, 11 Holicharan Narzary, 12 Bikramjit Singh, 17 Mandar Rao Desai, 23 Jewel Raja Shaikh
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee
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Assistant Referees
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Fourth Official
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BOOKINGS
Yellow Cards
14′ Kostas Katsouranis (FC Pune City)
54′ Iván Bolado Palacios (FC Pune City)
Yellow-Red Cards
none
Red Cards
none
MAN OF THE MATCH
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