KRL cruise towards football supremacy
Beat NBP 3-1 in league to widen gap at the top.
KARACHI:
Already crowned champions of the Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL), KRL maintained supremacy in the league with a 3-1 win over NBP in Rawalpindi yesterday.
Mohammad Adil scored the opener in just the seventh minute after which both teams found goals hard to come by. The first-half ended with KRL leading 1-0 but came back in the second to dominate the game.
Kaleemullah put KRL 2-0 ahead with a 66th-minute strike before NBP’s Abdul Aziz halved teh deficit in the 81st minute. However, any hopes of an NBP comeback were quickly dashed with Kamran Khan finding the net in the second minute of injury time.
The win took KRL’s tally to 70 points after 27 games while NBP are eighth with 41.
“I’m glad we’ve done so well especially considering we had new players,” Tariq Lutfi, who became KRL coach in July, told The Express Tribune. “Their consistency has worked wonders for us.”
KRL will now play at the Asian Football Confederation President’s Cup in Malaysia next year. In another PPFL encounter, Wapda drew with KESC 1-1 in Lahore.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 14th, 2011.
Already crowned champions of the Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL), KRL maintained supremacy in the league with a 3-1 win over NBP in Rawalpindi yesterday.
Mohammad Adil scored the opener in just the seventh minute after which both teams found goals hard to come by. The first-half ended with KRL leading 1-0 but came back in the second to dominate the game.
Kaleemullah put KRL 2-0 ahead with a 66th-minute strike before NBP’s Abdul Aziz halved teh deficit in the 81st minute. However, any hopes of an NBP comeback were quickly dashed with Kamran Khan finding the net in the second minute of injury time.
The win took KRL’s tally to 70 points after 27 games while NBP are eighth with 41.
“I’m glad we’ve done so well especially considering we had new players,” Tariq Lutfi, who became KRL coach in July, told The Express Tribune. “Their consistency has worked wonders for us.”
KRL will now play at the Asian Football Confederation President’s Cup in Malaysia next year. In another PPFL encounter, Wapda drew with KESC 1-1 in Lahore.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 14th, 2011.