66th Santosh Trophy - Day 3: Close encounters

It was the third day of the 66th edition of the National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy across Orissa in Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur and Baragarh.

It was a day of mixed results, numerous close encounters but it also contained the 13-0 trashing of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands by Delhi. The upset of the day came in Uttar Pradesh scoring a surprise 2-1 comeback victory against Karnataka. The only draw of the day was played between Nagaland and Bihar, while all the other matches were close encounters.


Day Three Results

Cluster-I - Sambalpur
13-May-2012: Andaman&Nicobar Island 0-13 Delhi
[7,23,50 Deepak Mehra, 41,44,60,81 Monu Choudhary, 56,75 Kamal Sngh, 68 P.S. Rawat, 82 Vikas Rawat, 86,91 David Ngaihte]
13-May-2012: Gujarat 2-1 Jharkhand
[G: 29 Sagar Thapa, 73 I. Sheikh; J: 70 Sachin Jariya]

Cluster-II - Cuttack
13-May-2012: Tripura 2-3 Himachal Pradesh
[T: 66 Premjit Singh Barua, 74 Arjit Singh Barua; H: 10,38 Chandan Kumar, 72 Pawan Thakur]

Cluster-III - Baragarh
13-May-2012: Madhya Pradesh 0-1 Meghalaya
[79 Bansharai Sun]
13-May-2012: Pondicherry 1-2 Chandigarh
[P: 78 Manikanandan; C: 14 Harminder Singh, 35 Gagandeep Singh]

Cluster-IV - Cuttack
13-May-2012: Arunachal Pradesh 1-2 Jammu&Kashmir
[A: 30 T.C.Teli; J: 12 Khalid Umer, 69 Asif Majeed]

Cluster-V - Bhubaneswar
13-May-2012: Nagaland 1-1 Bihar
[N: 85 K. Kiwe; B: 72 Murari Kumar]
13-May-2012: Uttar Pradesh 2-1 Karnataka
[U: 8 H.H. Khan, 62 Biru Yadav; K: 1 Gopi]