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YUPIA, 5 Mar:<\/strong> Wangkhei-mayum Sada-nanda Singh slammed a hat-trick as former champions Manipur stormed into the Santosh Trophy semifinals with a resounding 7-1 win over Assam, here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Sadananda struck thrice in the 11th, 16th and 70th minute, whereas skipper Phijam Sanathoi Meetei (4th), Ngangbam Pacha Singh (19th-penalty), Maibam Deny Singh (82nd) and Imarson Meitei (88th) were the other scorers for Manipur.<\/p>\n Joydeep Gogoi scored the only goal for Assam in the 64th minute.<\/p>\n Meetei opened the scoring with an assist from Sadananda’s pass outside the box to sneak the ball past Assam goalkeeper Abhinash Mech.<\/p>\n This was his 11th goal in this edition, making him the leading scorer in the 77th Santosh Trophy for the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n The early goal set the tone for Manipur’s dominance, with Meetei relentless in his attacks.<\/p>\n Sadananda scored with a diving header in the 11th minute, capitalising on a precise pass from Ngathem Imarson Meitei from the left flank.<\/p>\n Manipur continued to pound their rivals, with Sadananda securing his brace after a well-coordinated set-up from Sanathoi Meetei.<\/p>\n Assam’s fortunes were further dented in the 20th minute when Manipur was awarded a penalty after Urjoy Brahma of Assam fouled the Manipur captain, Sanathoi Meetei, inside the box.<\/p>\n Ngangbam Pacha Singh made no mistake from the spot kick, confidently slotting the ball into the top corner of the net to extend Manipur’s lead to 4-0.<\/p>\n Assam scored their only goal from substitute Joydeep Gogoi’s brilliant finish.<\/p>\n Sadananda then completed his hat-trick with a header from inside the box before Manipur’s left full-back, Deny Singh, calmly found the back of the net off a pass from Singam Subash Singh.<\/p>\n Imarson Meitei then completed the seven-goal rout with two minutes left on the clock. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" YUPIA, 5 Mar: Wangkhei-mayum Sada-nanda Singh slammed a hat-trick as former champions Manipur stormed into the Santosh Trophy semifinals with a resounding 7-1 win over Assam, here on Tuesday. Sadananda struck thrice in the 11th, 16th and 70th minute, whereas skipper Phijam Sanathoi Meetei (4th), Ngangbam Pacha Singh (19th-penalty), Maibam Deny Singh (82nd) and Imarson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-236425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}