East Bengal drop more points, as Sporting Clube de Goa come back from two goals down to finish the game 2-2 at full-time. Ranti Martins scored a brilliant freekick to add to his tally early in the second half, but a brace from Wolfe helped the visitors claim a draw in Kolkata. Kingfisher East Bengal 2-2 Sporting Clube de Goa (Full-Time)

Kolkata: Two late goals from visitors Sporting Clube de Goa earned them a hard fought 2-2 draw against East Bengal in an I-League encounter at the Salt Lake stadium here on Saturday.

East Bengal were 2-0 up after the hour mark as their Nigerian striker Ranti Martins scored a brace to put his side on the driving seat. However, Trinidadian forward Anthony Wolfe scored twice in quick succession to restore parity for Sporting.

Martins broke the deadlock in the 31st minute as he latched onto a hopeful aerial ball from Australian defender Milan Susak to skip past Rojen Singh, his marker and smash it into the net.

After the breather, Martins added the second as he scored with a brilliantly-taken free-kick in the 60th minute after midfielder Shylo Malsawmtluanga was fouled near the edge of the penalty area.

Four minutes later in was Wolfe's turn to steal the limelight as he found himself at the end of a header from Nigerian forward Odafa Okolie and the former's weak shot trickled over the goal-line.

At the 77th minute Wolfe was in the hunt again. He stitched together neat passes in the midfield and then ran into the box, latched onto a ball from midfielder Victorino Fernandes and poked it in the net.

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Pune, Feb 16 (IANS) FC Pune City defender Anupam Sarkar has signed a four-month loan contract with Georgian football Club FC Adeli Batumi, the Indian Super League franchise announced in a statement Monday.
He follows teammates Israil Gurung and Manish Maithani who recently secured a move to Portugal's top flight side Vitoria de Guimaraes' B team.
"I cannot wait to begin this new chapter in my career. I am thankful to my club FC Pune City and FC Adeli for providing me with this chance to go abroad and play in Georgia," Sarkar said Monday.
"I am excited to train and put in my best effort to help my team and my team mates."
"I am also very happy to know that FC Adeli is the first Georgian club ever to sign an Indian player," Levan Adeishvili, president of the Georgian club, said.

East Bengal 1-1 Kalyani Bharat FC: Controversial goal cost East Bengal 2 points in crucial Home game against Bharat FC

East Bengal team were left shattered and lost 2 points despite taking lead as the reefree seemingly made a contentious decision to award Bharat FC a second half equalizer which seemed Kris Wright clearly elbowing Goalkeeper Subabhish in the aerial tussle resulting in the goal.
With the much awaited derby around the corner East Bengal faced dichotomy to field a strengthed squad or give key player due rest before the debry they are due to play in less than 48 hours.
With Ranty upfront pairing with Baljeet and Dudu on bench East Bengal did not create much threat in first half as the away team seemed to be more fluid in their movement with Subash Singh providing pace and big framed Kris Wright tormented the East Bengal backline and had a few clear chances which they squandered. But the deadline was broken in 41st minute when Ranty Martin tucked in a neat cross from Mama to give East Bengal a narrow lead.


In the second half the match gathered momentum as both side creating more chances but what seemed like an error of judgement from the referee as Kris Bright elbowed Goalkeeper Subhash in the 6 yeard box to roll the ball past goalline and surprisngly the referee awarded the goal to Bharat FC leaving East Bengal furious.
The match came to life as Eadt Bengal fielded Dudu Omagbemi in search for a lead while Bharat FC looked happy with 1 point as they tried to play with lone striker and long ball strategy trying to capitalize on the counter.Second half saw some heated moments as a flurry of yellow cards were shown to both teams with none of the teams managing to take lead spoils were shared as un-seasonal rains lashed the mighty YBK to conclude the game 1-1.