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#1 A Wall Named Kenstar-Aibanbha
Naorem Mahesh Singh was awarded as the Man of Match for his brace and heroics in front of goal. The award though could have easily gone to Aibanbha Doling or Kenstar Kardong.
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Aibanbha Doling is someone who is new to people following Indian football, but Kenstar Kardong in someone who impressed everyone with his performance last season.
A certain Khalid Jamil will remember Kenstar Kardong very well as Kenstar was one of the main reason's for East Bengal drawing the game with Lajong and eventually losing the league to Minerva.
Kenstar and Aibanbha have a partnership which looks like the perfect good cop bad cop duo. Kenstar plays the role of a Good Cop by keeping it tidy and not lunging into tackles and playing neat and tidy football, following the philosophy of not having to go in for a tackle and not making mistakes.
Aibanbha, on the other hand, has a Sergio Ramos style of defending in him. He loves going in for tackles, and he is excellent in the air.
In the second half, Lalrinfela put in a lovely cross into the box, both Dodoz and Kromah were waiting inside the box, Dodoz couldn't reach the ball given the lack of space to run into due to Kenstar perfect covering.
The Ball delightful cross had beat the Lajong keeper and it looked like Kromah would bury it, but just as Kromah was lining up, a shot Aibanbha came flying in to clear it away. That one instant was a perfect example of the way the duo like to defend.
Both of them did a brilliant job to counter two proven foreign goal scorers in the I-League and seldom did the youngsters make a mistake during the game.
The Lajong duo also did not hoof balls up forward and played the ball forward from the back. Both of them even look confident on the ball which is a welcome change for Indian centre-backs as most of them are very uncomfortable with the ball at their feet.
