NorthEast United 2-2 Inter Kashi Highlights, AIFF Super Cup: I-League Champs Hold Highlanders

Good afternoon and welcome to everyone joining us this Sunday. We are back with today's Super Cup fixtures, starting with the NorthEast United vs Inter Kashi game. Stay with us for the build-up and live updates.

Here is NorthEast United's line-up for their campaign opener against Inter Kashi:

The match kicks off at 4:30pm IST. The NorthEast United vs Inter Kashi, AIFF Super Cup group B clash will be live streamed on Indian Football’s YouTube channel in India. It will not be telecast on any TV channel in the country.

The match gets underway amid incessant rain at the GMC Stadium. North East United, the Durand Cup champions, attacking from right to left and Inter Kashi the other way in the first half.

Inter Kashi take the lead in the fifth minute! Harmanpreet Singh taps it in from his left foot from close range to beat NorthEast United goalie Gurmeet. NEUFC try to counter immediately with a prowl on the Inter Kashi goal, which is thwarted somehow. Box-to-box action as of now.

NorthEast United equalise in the 18th minute! And who else, but the talismanic Alaeddine Ajaraie to score for them. It's a wonderful ball in which Tondonba chests down for Ajaraie, who drills it in clinically. The rain has really picked up and so have Northeast United, in the last 10 minutes.

A yellow card is shown to Inter Kashi defender Wayne Vaz as his sliding tackle brings down NorthEast United forward Chema Nunez in the midfield. We are past the half-hour mark and the match is quite even right now.

Captain Zabaco Tome doubles NorthEast United's lead! The defender heads in Andy's corner kick through the legs of Inter Kashi 'keeper Shubham Dhas in the 40th minute. The Highlanders well and truly on top now.

After two minutes of stoppage time, the referee blows the whistle and the first half comes to an end with NorthEast United in the lead, despite Inter Kashi scoring the first goal. Still just a one-goal lead, so either side can come up trumps post the lemon break.

The players return from the mid-game interval and the second half gets underway. Inter Kashi now kicking from right to left and NorthEast United the other way. The Highlanders garner an early corner and it leads to a freekick, just outside the box. This could spell trouble for the I-League champions.

NorthEast United employing a high press, trying to daunt the Inter Kashi defenders into making a mistake near their box. They know that a one-goal lead is not sufficient are eyeing a third goal to swing the match decisively in their favour.

Inter Kashi have found an equaliser! Against the run of play, the I-League champions draw level and it is courtesy midfielder Karthik Panicker's moment of brilliance, as he slides to finish from his left foot past the NorthEast United goalie in the 74th minute.

The regulation 90 minutes are over and eight minutes have been added as injury time. NorthEast United might not have anticipated Inter Kashi's fightback, and have been striving to somehow find a late winner. They still have some time. Can the I-League champions thwart them?

Inter Kashi hold on! Referee Harish Kundu blows the final whistle and points are shared in the Group B opener. It's a massive result for the I-League champions, who do not have any foreign player in their roster. The Highlanders are held in Bambolim and this result could come back to haunt them, given the group also has FC Goa and Jamshedpur FC.