I-League: Plaza gives Churchill Brothers crucial win over Neroca

Vasco: Trinidad & Tobago striker Willis Plaza scored a brace to join Chennai's Pedro Manzi at the top of the I-League's goal scoring charts and complete a brilliant comeback for his side, late in the second-half, to pull off a crucial win over Neroca FC here on Saturday.

Neroca sealed three points in Saturday's third and final I-League game, thanks to a Varney Kallon strike in the first-half before Plaza struck twice in the last five minutes to break their hearts.

It was an amazing turnaround and with this win, the former two-time champions reached 25 points from 14 games to be placed third on the table, five behind league leaders Chennai. Neroca would rue what might have been and remained in the fifth position with 21 points.

Churchill made one change in the playing eleven from the previous game as Nenad Novakovic came in place of Hussein Eldor in deep defence. Neroca's Spanish coach Manuel Fraile, on the other hand, made two, replacing Saran Singh and Ashok with Tondomba Singh and Meetei. IANS

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