The regular time closed with DS throwing everything forward in search of a winner, well aware that shootouts often favour the team that was second-best during open play.

Nabid Yeasin scored a hattrick as The Daily Star moved into the Last 16 of the Kool-BSJA Media Cup Football Tournament with a 3-1 win against Dhaka Post in their first match at the Paltan Outer Stadium on Tuesday.

The tournament has been held for the last 25 years.

The Daily Star began the Kool-BSJA Media Cup with a convincing 3-1 win against former champions Channel 24 in a round of 32 fixture at the BFF Artificial Turf in Motijheel today.

As many as 32 media houses from print, electronic and online, split into eight groups, will be taking part in the six-a-side knockout tournament, and will start competing in knockout fixtures at the artificial turf adjacent to Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) in Motijheel.

Kool-BSJA Media Cup football tournament, an annual football extravaganza of top media houses organised by Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association (BSJA) and sponsored by Square Toiletries Ltd, is all set to get underway at the artificial turf adjacent to Bangladesh Football Federation on Saturday.