IMPHAL, May 8: Manipur defeated Andaman & Nicobar by 12-1 goals in the ongoing 65th national football championship for Santosh trophy 2010-11 being held at Sivsagar, Assam. In their second match of the preliminary round clusters III competition Manipur scored at regular interval to net in a total of 12 goals against minnows Andaman & Nicobar. Striker L Tiken netted in a total of six goals in the match while L Nabachandra scored two goals. Th Santosh, I Nilakumar, L Thoiba and Kh Naoton scored one goal each for Manipur. Manipur will play their last match of the cluster III competition against Andra Pradesh on May 10 but the AP team has failed to turn up for the championship so far and Manipur is sure to enter pre-quarter final round.
