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Chhattisgarh
Chandigarh breezed past Pondicherry 5-0 in the second edition of the Swami Vivekananda U20 Men’s National Football Championship kicked off with two Group E matches at the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama Ground in Narainpur, Chhattisgarh,
on Thursday.
Telangana and Uttarakhand played out a goalless draw. A total of 35 teams, split into eight groups, are competing in the tournament.
Chandigarh put on a dominant display, effectively finishing the contest by racing to a four-goal lead at half-time. Manveer Singh scored the tournament’s first goal – taking advantage of a loose ball to tap in from close range in the 15th minute. He added another goal, a right-footed strike into the bottom corner, in the
28th minute. Sahil scored a hat-trick with goals in the 39th, 43rd and 64th minutes – beating the goalkeeper one on one, before a couple of
point-blank conversions.
