Services won their sixth Santosh Trophy title with a 1-0 victory over home side Punjab, thanks to a second-half strike by Bikash Thapa at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana on Sunday. Home side Punjab had more initiative during the opening exchanges, managing to get a few shots on goal. However, as the match wore on, Services started to gain more composure and built their own articulate attacks down the flanks. That goal gave Punjab the initiative to go looking for the equaliser, and striker Vikrant Singh came oh-so-close with around 15 minutes of regulation time to go. Turning in the centre-circle, he spotted that the Services keeper Vishnu VK was off his line, and chipped the ball towards goal.

Source: dna April 22, 2019 03:11 UTC