Margao: FC Goa started their Indian Super League (ISL) football campaign on a convincing note after dispatching Delhi Dynamos 2-0 at the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, here on Sunday.
An own goal from Souvik Chakraborty (3rd minute) opened the scoring for the hosts before Reinaldo Da Cruz Oliveira (45+2) added a second at the stroke of half-time.
The visitors, who had better ball possession and scoring opportunities, failed to find the net with rival goalkeeper making a couple of good saves. After being gifted with an early lead, the Zico coached side continued to make the right moves even though the ground was a bit slippery post some drizzle before the match.
The home team had another chance to increase the lead in the 12th minute, but Leonardo Moura low shot hit the post. Delhi, who lost both their matches to the home team last season, seemed unperturbed by the early setback and regrouped to create chances. They had a chance to find the equaliser but the hometeam keeper Elinton Andrade did well to come out of his charge and deny Richard Gadze from scoring from a one-to-one situation.
The visitors kept on probing and had another chance to find the equaliser but Florent Malouda header off Vinicius Ferreira de Souza cross from the left went over the bar. Delhi came with a couple of threatening moves but first a Hans Mulder shot missed the target and later Richard Gadze’s attempt at the goal was parried by the ’keeper.
