Margao (Goa), Dec. 25 -- Istiklol produced a second-half fightback to beat FC Goa 2-1 in the last AFC Champions League Two 2025-26 Group D match at the PJN Stadium here.
The result meant that FC Goa finished bottom of the group with zero points from six matches, in their first-ever appearance in the AFC Champions League Two.
The home side, yet to register a point, took the lead in the eighth minute with Dejan Drazic finding space inside the box before finishing superbly with a curling effort into the top right corner on Wednesday night,Istiklol responded seven minutes later with Amirbek Juraboev testing FC Goa keeper Lara Sharma from distance, while Siavash Haghnazari tried to lob the ball over Sharma a minute later from Paul Komolafe's s...