Colombo FC steamrolled over Solid SC with a score of 3 – 0 to grab the first win of the year in the Dialog Champions League Super 8 encounter held at the Kelaniya Football Complex today.
Champions Colombo FC held by resurgent New Youngs
Colombo FC and New Young’s share the spoils as the visitors clinch a hard earned point against the title holders, in a Dialog Champions League Super 8 game.
After a 4 month pause both teams returned to the Dialog Champions League with a 0 – 0 draw for defending champions Colombo FC against New Youngs SC and a 5 – 0 win for Solid SC against Navy SC in the bag.
Although an evenly paced match was expected with both Solid SC and Colombo FC being the champions of 2014 and 2015 respectively, the Colombo lads started taking control of the game after few minutes from kick off.
Colombo FC stormed through both wings upsetting the Solid defence and constantly created set piece like moments with long lobs into the penalty box for a waiting striker with left wing back Tuwan Rizni making the majority of the contributions.
Photos: Colombo FC v Solid SC | Super 8 | DCL16
Colombo FC 3 – 0 Solid SC – Dialog Champions League 2016 – Super 8 | #Match 6
Danushka Madusanka of Colombo FC was the first to find the back of the net with a brilliant volley over the keeper, but the goal was disallowed as he struck a Solid defender in the process of controlling the ball.
The constant rain of lobs finally paid off when David Osaji’s light header for Rizni’s brainchild was enough to see the ball inside the goal giving the Colombo FC in the 32nd minute.
Although Edison Figurado received a couple of chances to make things level for Solid SC, all his attempts were in vain as the lads from Anuradhapura had to go into half time trailing behind.
Half time – Colombo FC 1 – 0 Solid SC
Solid SC seemed to be making a comeback with the beginning of the second half but the Kew Point Road boys regained control wreaking havoc in their opponents half.
They doubled the lead in the 69th minute when a header for a corner strayed into the goal mouth and Ahamed Shazni’s venomous strike made sure the ball stayed inside the goal.
Even though both teams made some headway towards goal, the rest of the match was quite uneventful with majority of possession going towards Colombo FC.
A late strike from substitute Niran Kanishka made it 3 – 0 for as Colombo FC won the match moving into the top of the table.
Full time – Colombo FC 3 – 0 Solid SC
ThePapare.com Player of the Match – Ahamed Shazny
A jubilant coach of Colombo FC, Mr. Mohamed Roomy gave his thoughts to ThePapare.com;
‘We played out the match just as we planned. I am missing a defender but tried to compensate for it by moving captain Raumy to the defence and it worked well. We studied our opponents as well as previous other matches so we tried to play a wide spread game without being compact. We hope to plan the rest of the matches game by game and also we will be experimenting some things we hope to try out in the AFC Cup during the Air Force match.’
A somewhat disappointed coach of Solid SC, Mr. Mohamed Jasmin said;
‘We are missing 5 players from our first XI due to injuries and various other reasons. And also the fact that we couldn’t continue our practices from December as I was also on National Team duty are the reasons for our loss today. But comparatively I think our boys put a pretty effort today.’
Goal Scorers
Colombo FC – David Osaji 32’, Ahamed Shazni 69’, Niran Kanishka 89’
Bookings
Yellow cards
Solid SC – Shanaka Prabodh 42’, Deepal Kularathne 67’
