BMT FC, Inter Department Football Tournament

A Harick from Sushil Helped his team BMT book a palace in the quarter finals of the Inter Departmental Tournament. In the first match of the knockout round of the journey, BMT beat Bhutan Telecom 6:2 yestarday.

Bhutan Telecom looked determined and tried to maintain the lead in the game. The clock ticked only fourteen and they got their first goal when Karma Wangdi flipped in a header from their corner

BMT were trying desperately for an equalizer but luck was not on their side and in the 35th minutes a goalkeeping blunder by the BMT goalkeeper, Chencho helped Bhutan Telecom to find another goal. It was an easy catch but due to poor judgment by Chencho, the ball slipped from his hand and was rolling towards the goal, Tshering Norbu of Bhutan Telecom made no errors and toed the ball into the net pushing up the score line to 2:0.

However, the BMT did not lose hope. They played their game making attempts after attempts though non went into the opponent goal post. Eventually their persistent effort paid off in the 40th minutes when Kencho Tobgay made a spectacular goal by slamming into the net o cross ball from his teammate Yeshi.

The goal gave them the boost and BMT were then urgently looking for an equalizer. But before that the whistle for the half time was blown.

After the break, the BMT came in more energized but their much sough equalizer came in only in the 58th minutes when Tashi Phuntsho’s fare attempt from the near the centre line found the nets. It as a draw then and both the teams fought hard racing towards finding a winning goal.

BMT made a timely substation and Sushil came in. He changed the whole course of the game and snatched the game from the hand of the Bhutan Telecom. It was in the 75th minutes only a few minutes after his appearance into the game when Sushil scored the winning goal for his team. After fetching a pass from his team mate Nidup, he dribbled the ball past the Bhutan Telecom defenders and majestically slipped the ball into the net.

After that goal, the BMT’ took full control of the game. In the 85th Minutes Sushil netted in his second goal the score board read 4:2 for BMT and only a minute after in the 86th minutes, Sushil made his hatrick and his team mate Yeshi scored another in the 89th minutes, pushing the final score to 6:2 for BMT

Today, RSTA will take on Royal Thimphu College in the first match at 1.30 pm and Druk Wangyel will play against Bhutan Post in the second match that is scheduled at 3.30Pm.