{"id":8698,"date":"2023-11-14T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/14\/i-league-shillong-lajong-settles-for-a-2-2-draw-at-home-against-deccan-fc\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:42:01","slug":"i-league-shillong-lajong-settles-for-a-2-2-draw-at-home-against-deccan-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/14\/i-league-shillong-lajong-settles-for-a-2-2-draw-at-home-against-deccan-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"I-League: Shillong Lajong settles for a 2-2 draw at home against Deccan FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sreenidi Deccan FC settled for a two-all draw against Shillong Lajong in the I-League football championship in Shillong on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sreenidi shot into the lead through Rosenberg Gabriel but Shillong Lajong scored the equaliser before the break.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a vociferous crowd, Sreenidi took the lead in the seventh minute when midfielder Ibrahim Sissoko\u2019s long pass sailed over the rival defence and the waiting Gabriel capitalised on the scoring opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the 28th minute, defender Ronney Kharbudon\u2019s header found the target for the home team.<\/p>\n<p>Also read | <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/athletics\/neeraj-chopra-finalist-men-world-athlete-of-the-year-award-2023-top-five-shortlist\/article67532227.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neeraj Chopra in top five for the Men\u2019s World Athlete of the Year Award 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Six minutes later, Lajong snatched the lead with Japanese winger Takuto Miki latching on to a throw-in to find the target.<\/p>\n<p>In the second session, Sreenidi dominated the game and scored the equaliser in the 67th minute when Gabriel positioned himself well for Rilwan Hassan\u2019s cross from the left to slam one into the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Sreenidi could have clinched the issue minutes later but Gabriel\u2019s close-ranger was called off-side<\/p>\n<p>Sreenidi will take on TRAU FC in its next game at Kalyani Stadium in West Bengal on November 19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shillong is currently placed 10th in the standings with three points while Deccan is third with seven points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}