Chhetri 'tricks for Team India

LISBON: India registered their third win a row with a hard fought 1-0 win over Atletico played at the Sporting Academy training ground here at Lisbon on Wednesday evening.

India drew first blood and took an early lead through in-form striker Mohammed Rafi in the 6th minute. Abhishek Yadav provided the pass, which was neatly converted by the Churchill Brother striker. 

Atletico too gave a better account of themselves after trailing by a goal, but failed produce any magic in the first half as both the teams went for the breather with the scoreline reading 1-0 in favour of the Bob Houghton coached side. 

After the lemon break, there was no addition in the scoreline as India sealed the match to complete their hat-trick of wins.

India 1-0 Atletico (Mohammed Rafi 6’) 

Playing XI: Arindam Bhattacharya, Surkumar Singh (Deepak Mondal), Gouramangi Singh (Mahesh Gawli), Anwar (N.S. Manju), Rahim Nabi (N. Mohanraj), Anthony Pereira, N.P. Pradeep (Mehrajuddin Wadao), Renedy Singh (Baldeep Singh), Clifford Miranda (James Singh), Abhishek Yadav , Mohammed Rafi (Sushil Kumar Singh)

Unused Substitutes: Subhasish Choudhary, Subrata Pal, Rakesh Masih, Steven Dias, Climax Lawrence, Samir Naik, Jagpreet Singh, Baljit Sahni, Govin Singh