Gameweek 12 of the Hero I-League saw Mohun Bagan remain at top with a 3-1 victory over Salgoacar. Bengaluru FC remain second as Royal Wahingdoh maintain third, seeing no change in the top of the table.Leaders Mohun Bagan beat Salgaocar 3-1 at home, with Denson Devadas (Chennaiyin FC) opening the scoring for the Mariners at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. Devadas helped the ball into the back of the net off a Bello Rasaq header from a Norde free-kick.Royal Wahingdoh managed a draw against the defending champions Bengaluru FC at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bangalore. Godwin Franco (Kerala Blasters FC) put his side ahead just before half time with a thumping strike leaving the goalkeeper stranded. Franco scored his second goal on the trot, scoring a stunner against East Bengal last week as Wahingdoh emerged 1-0 victors.Shillong Lajong thrashed Mumbai FC 6-0 away from home at the Cooperage Ground in Mumbai. Penn Orji (Kerala Blasters FC), Zodingliana (NorthEast United FC) and Milan Singh (NorthEast United FC) got their names on the score sheet alongside a couple of other Lajong players. Seminlen Doungel (NorthEast United FC) made a run into the box as he cut back for Orji whose effort took a deflection as it beat the goalkeeper to double Lajong’s lead. Zodingliana tripled his sides lead two minutes into the second half as he tapped home from a rebound off his own shot. Milan Singh capped off their performance with a brilliant volleyed effort from the edge of the box to make it 6-0 in extra time.Zohib Amiri (FC Goa) scored a brace against Sporting Clube in an away game at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Fatorda. He scored the opening goal of the game for Dempo but also scored the equalising goal in the 89th minute as the match ended in a 2-2 draw. For his first he simply nodded in from a Jewel Raja (FC Goa) corner aided by a shabby bit of goalkeeping. Amiri scored his second in the dying minutes of the game as Dempo were trailing by a goal. It was an all-out team goal with Gabriel Fernandes (FC Goa) starting the move by finding Amiri. Amiri released Francis Fernandes (Delhi Dynamos FC) on the right as he headed home from the return cross.
