Match Report
Sporting Goa went into the game 4th in the table on 22 points; Bengaluru sat 1st on 32 — a 10-point gap. Per game in the league, Sporting Goa were scoring 1.5 and conceding 1.25, Bengaluru 1.5 and 1.06, against a competition average of 1.29 goals per team per game.
M. Santosh Kumar took charge of the match — our records show 16 games refereed with an average of 0.0 yellow cards per game. The match was played at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi (capacity 40,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Sporting Goa led 2-1 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 2-2.