{"id":10904,"date":"2021-09-24T18:48:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=152777"},"modified":"2021-09-24T18:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T13:18:24","slug":"fc-goa-beat-delhi-fc-5-1-to-earn-semi-final-spot-in-the-130th-durand-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/fc-goa-beat-delhi-fc-5-1-to-earn-semi-final-spot-in-the-130th-durand-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Goa beat Delhi FC 5-1 to earn semi-final spot in the 130th Durand Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Indian Super League (ISL) giants, FC Goa continue their brilliant run to display a dominant brand of football in the 130th edition of the Durand Cup against Delhi FC in the tournaments knockout quarter-final stage at the Kalyani Stadium in Kolkata earlier today. The Gaurs walked past their opponents to beat them 5-1 as Delhi FC entered their maiden Durand Cup\u2019s last eight after beating Kerala Blasters in the final game of the group stages to finish second behind Bengaluru FC and one point ahead of the Blasters (4th) and the Indian Navy (3rd) in Group C.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc02 \ud835\udc06\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc00 \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc03\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc08-\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc12\u203c\ufe0f\ud83d\udd25<br \/>Presenting before your our third Semi-Finalists of Durand Cup'21- FC Goa \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb\u26bd<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DurandCup2021?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DurandCup2021<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/130thEdition?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#130thEdition<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Legacy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Legacy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kolkata?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kolkata<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Football?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Football<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/aiff?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#aiff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cherrytree?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cherrytree<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RiseAgain?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RiseAgain<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/forcagoa?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#forcagoa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DilmeDilli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DilmeDilli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCGoa?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FCGoa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DelhiFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DelhiFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FCGvsDEL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FCGvsDEL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QleuBXHigT\">pic.twitter.com\/QleuBXHigT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Durand Cup (@thedurandcup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thedurandcup\/status\/1441352283527151621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The five goals for FC Goa came from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Devendra Murgaokar, Muhammed Neil and Brandon Fernandez in the first 45 minutes and Leander D\u2019Cunha and Romario Jesuraj in the second and final half. <\/span>Goa\u2019s Dheeraj Singh could not keep a clean sheet in the game as Delhi found the back of the net on the 82nd-minute mark. The goal only proved to be a constellation as the game ended 5-1 which ended Delhi FC\u2019s run in the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n<p>FC Goa will now await the result of the final quarter-final game scheduled for tomorrow in a clash between Bengaluru FC and Army Green to determine who will face the Gaurs in the second semi-final. The first semi-final is set between FC Bengaluru United (FCBU) and Mohammedan Sporting Club. FCBU were given a bye in the quarter-final match against Army Red due to a COVID-19 positive case in the squad which prohibited the bout to not take place and send FCBU into the semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FC Goa enters the tournament\u2019s semi-final as they now await the winners of the fourth and final quarter-final game between fellow ISL side Bengaluru FC and Army Green.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":33380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2396,989,1017,938],"class_list":["post-10904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-durand-cup","tag-fc-goa","tag-indian-football","tag-soccer"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}