Title holders Mohun Bagan continued their resurgence, spanking Dempo Sports Club 5-1 in a seventh National Football league match in Kolkata on Tuesday.

Brazilian Jose Ramirez Barreto found the target twice while Lolendra Singh and Nigerian George Ekeh scored a goal each�before Dempo's Stanley Colaco scored an own goal in the Salt Lake stadium match.

Uzbek Andreev Sergey reduced the margin for the losers.

The local giants, who put up a lacklustre showing in the initial stages of the tournament, signalled a return to form with a 4-0 drubbing of Indian Bank in their previous match. They now have�18 points from 10 outings.

After playing listless soccer for a major part of the first-half, Bagan went ahead seconds before half-time and bolstered their lead with an early strike in the seond-half to unsettle their opponents.

The Kolkata�giants thereafter literally toyed with their opponents and could have won by an even bigger margin but for poor finishing by their strikers, who muffed up a number of rosy chances.

Dempo, who matched their rivals in the first-half, seemed all at sea after the breather.

They�remain on 20 points from 10 matches.