Hong Kong: Bengaluru FC carved history for themselves as they marched into the quarter-finals of the AFC Cup football, beating Kitchee SC 3-2 in a pulsating game at the Mong Kok Stadium here yesterday.

Sunil Chhetri

Two goals from Bengaluru FC’s mercurial skipper Sunil Chhetri (31st and 33rd minutes) and a winner from young Daniel Lalhlimpuia (51st) sent Ashley Westwood’s boys through to the last-eight, making them the only Indian club left in the competition.

The Blues bowed out at the same stage in the same stadium last season when they went down 0-2 to South China AA.