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Monday, July 14, 2025

Joseph scores as Mohammedan reaches Cup final

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Nigel Simon
1386 days ago
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T&T's Marcus "Young Lobo"  Joseph.

T&T's Marcus "Young Lobo" Joseph.

Courtesy TTFA Facebook page

T&T strik­er Mar­cus Joseph notched his tour­na­ment-best fifth goal as Mo­hammedan SC bat­tled past Ben­galu­ru Unit­ed 4-2 in ex­tra-time af­ter a 2-2 dead­lock to reach the fi­nal of the 130th edi­tion of the In­dia Du­rand Cup on Mon­day.

Ben­galu­ru Unit­ed got off to a per­fect start when Pe­dro Manzi net­ted as ear­ly as the first minute on­ly for the 30-year-old Joseph who got the lone goal in his team’s quar­ter­fi­nal win over his pre­vi­ous em­ploy­ers Goku­lam Ker­ala on Thurs­day last to get Mo­hammedan on lev­el terms this time in the ninth minute.

Sev­en min­utes be­fore the half-time in­ter­val, Faisal Ali fired Mo­hammedan SC ahead for the first time in the con­test, but in the 78th minute Kin­shuk Deb­nath tied up the scores again for Ben­galu­ru Unit­ed.

Three min­utes in­to time added on Ben­galu­ru Unit­ed was re­duced to ten men when Manzi was shown a red-card and 13 min­utes in­to the first-half of ex­tra time Bran­don Van­lal­remdi­ka put Mo­hammedan SC in­front again be­fore Niko­la Sto­janovic added an in­sur­ance item, in the 110th minute.

A for­mer W Con­nec­tion, Cen­tral FC and Pt Fortin Civic strik­er Joseph scored 27 goals in 31 match­es for Goku­lam and led the club to Du­rand Cup crown two years ago with a brace against Mo­hun Bagan in a 2-1 tri­umph.

The T&T in­ter­na­tion­al and his new team­mates now await the win­ners of Thurs­day’s semi­fi­nal be­tween FC Goa and Ben­galu­ru FC in the fi­nal which is card­ed for Oc­to­ber 10.


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