Durand Cup newcomers FC Raengdai won a match that swung on its axis often enough to leave both dugouts looking faintly seasick by the end of it. The result sends FC Raengdai top of Group D with six points from two matches, a start few would have predicted for a side playing only its second-ever Durand Cup fixture. Mridul Doley did most of the early damage, scoring either side of the half-hour to give FC Raengdai a cushion that looked, for a spell, entirely comfortable. Doley had the final word, completing his hat-trick in the 79th minute to send FC Raengdai back in front for good. The opener, in the 14th minute, arrived from precisely the sort of anxious clearance TRAU had until then avoided needing to make.