Calcutta: Sporting Clube de Goa continued their domination of the I-League with a 1-0 victory over United SC in a sixth round match that was marred by a 27-minute power-cut at the Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday evening.

Joseph Pereira scored the all-important goal for the Goan outfit in the 73rd minute. Harmanjot Khabra’s cross from the right was deflected off United SC custodian Gopal Das and fell to an unmarked Joseph who made no mistakes in shooting it home.

The Goans thus remained on top of the table with 15 points from six matches while Subrata Bhattacharjee’s men, who will be ruing missed chances, sank to the bottom with five points from six encounters.

Earlier, the first-half witnessed a balanced game. Though Sporting dominated the initial play, the city side too started making back-to-back forays as the game progressed.

The Goans with Amos and Junior Obagbemiro up front missed a ripe opportunity in the 7th minute — thanks to a brilliant save by Gopal Das. Six minutes later United SC came close to scoring — but Bidemi Daniel’s ambitious attempt flew over the target.

TEAMS

Sporting Clube de Goa: Felix D’Souza, Samananda N. Singh, Mathew Gonsalves, Luciano Sobrosa, Junior Obagbemiro, Wilton Gomes (Bibiano Fernandes 90+), Amos Nathaniel, Harmanjot Khabra, Rovan Periera, Chinta Chandrasekhar, Joseph Pereira (Singam Rojen Singh 86)

United SC: Gopal Das, Bidemi Daniel, Ayeni, Louis Nigi Ebami, Dulal Biswas, Subhasish Roy Chowdhury, Dhanarajan R. (Basudeb Mondal 39), Snehasish Chakraborty, Hardeep Singh, Gauranga Dutta (Kinshuk Debnath 75), Subair Murithala Ali, Soumik Chakraborty (Ayan Chowdhury 66)

Referee: Yaima Singh

MoM: Luciano Sobrosa.