East Bengal returned to victory in the Kolkata League. They thrashed Police AC 6-0 on Friday after being held to a stalemate against Kolkata Customs in their previous match. Big win for Red-Yellow on Jackson Singh’s debut day. Senior team coach Carles Kuadrat watched the match from the gallery.
East Bengal officially announced the name of Jackson as the new footballer on Friday morning. Jackson was exposed before the match at home. He entered the field with Kuadrat. The audience cheered and welcomed the team’s new footballer.
Bino George’s boys gave a good performance in the field as well. East Bengal footballers scored two goals in the first half and four goals in the second half. East Bengal scored the first goal in 16 minutes. After playing a pass with PV Vishnu, Sion Banerjee went to attack from the left side and pass. But a police defender got a light touch, and the ball went into the goal. Before the end of the first half, Vishnu got the ball at the head of the box and scored.
In the 64th minute of the second half, Shyamal Besra scored from Aman’s pass from the left side. Jessen Tick scored three minutes later. Sanjeev Ghosh passed to Jessin, who was in the gap from the right side. East Bengal scored the fifth goal in 72 minutes. This time, Jessin scored by pushing the ball into the empty net from Sion’s pass from the left side. The sixth goal came from his pass. Aman scored.
