Mumbai: FC Pune City produced another stunning performance to emerge as the winners of Super Division title. The Pune outfit maintained their unbeaten record as they defeated Iron Born FC Under-19 by a comfortable 4-0 margin in the concluding Super Division match of the MDFA League at the Neville D’Souza ground, Bandra on Sunday evening.
The young Pune outfit played attacking brand of football to dictate terms throughout. Strikers Akhil Rawat, Mark Zothanpuia, Laldawnkima Lalngathawma and Johnson Singh scored a goal each for the champions. Pune City finished with an all-win record to tally 15 points and grab pole position.
Earlier, ICL Payyade rode on the brilliance of Aaron Olaide who slammed in all the four goals to steer the team to 4-1 win against Reliance Foundation Young (under-16) Champions in another match of the same division. Reliance pulled one back through Zidan Ningthoujam.
ICL Payyade with nine points from three wins finished runners-up, while Iron Born with seven points was placed third. In an inconsequential match, Chheda Hagar SC defeated Juhu Sparks 2-1 to finish on a high. Gaurav Adhikari struck both the goals for Chheda Nagar while Tyson Pereira got the lone goal for the losers.
Karnatak SA win
Karnatak Sporting Association continued with strong winning run of form as they blanked Bombay Muslims 9-0 in a one-sided Elite Division match of the MDFA League at the Neville D’Souza ground, Bandra. Producing another superb combined performance, the Karnatak side struck at regular intervals with strikers Sunny Thakur, Sanchit Singh, Azfer Noorani and Johnson D’Silva all scoring two goals each while Zaid Ansari contributed one to round off the tally.
Results: Elite Div: Karnatak SA: 9 (S Thakur 2, S Singh 2, A Noorani 2, J D’Silva 2, Z Ansari) bt Bombay Muslims: 0; PIFA Colaba: 3 (K Tare 3) bt Mumbai Strikers: 1 (H Mistry); U Mumba: 3 (P Mishra, H Dias, S Khanvilkar) bt Companeroes: 1 (W Trinidade).
