Kevin Patrick opened the scoring earlier in the second-half and with ten minutes remaining, inform striker Troy Nunes made it 2-0 to earn an all important three points for Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (RCF).

Although GM Sports were the first to made their mark earlier in the game. GM’s Himanshu Patil saw his bullet header struck the bar, but fortunately for GM Sports, after hitting the bar the ball fell into Mario Fernandes’s path whose shot unfortunately sailed over the bar.

A minute later on 17th minute, RCF came close to open the scoring. Kevin Patrick found Troy Nunes with a delightful low cross, but the latter somehow failed to bury his shot into the back of the net.

With each seconds passing by, RCF saw themselves settling into the game. GM Sport’s backline started to invite pressure which turned out to backfire them.

RCF’s Sonu Majhi had a poor first-half. His composure in front of the goal was a big question mark. On the 22nd minute, Arvind Kanojia set Sonu on goal with a pin point through ball, but Sonu’s loose shot proved harmless for GM Sports goalkeeper Pritam Jadhav.

Five minutes later, GM Sports had their best chance of the first-half. Mario Fernandes delivered a dangerous low ball into the box, Arbaaz Kapadia took a delayed shot which got a slight deflection off RCF’s defender and just managed to sail over the bar.

RCF’s Troy Nunes was a having a field day against the same side from whom they lost to in this year’s Nadkarni Football Cup Tournament, where GM Sports came back from 1-0 down to win 3-1.

In the last 15 minutes of first-half, Troy set up Sonu Majhi and Kevin Patrick twice, but their poor display in the final-third prevented RCF any goals.

The second-half saw RCF improving their finishing with Troy Nunes, Kevin Patrick and Sonu Majhi leading their attack upfront.

Just four minutes into the second-half, RCF finally got the breakthrough.

After a unsuccessful corner from GM Sports, RCF’s goalkeeper Vatsal Bhatia was quick enough to deliver a long ball towards Sonu Majhi, the number 23 brilliantly tricked his marker and delivered a fantastic cross which was headed in perfectly by Kevin Patrick.

Five minutes later, Sonu Majhi found Troy once again on the edge of the box, who lobbed the ball towards Kevin Patrick, the number 10 lashed a volley which was brilliant tipped over the bar by GM Sport’s goalkeeper Pritam Jadhav.

Troy Nunes created havoc by tearing apart GM Sports backline. Although he was unlucky to not score.

Unless 81st minute though where Kevin Patrick’s curling effort was kept out by GM Sport’s goalkeeper Pritam Jadhav, but it felt into Troy’s way who headed into the empty net to hit the final nail in the coffin.

Ironically it was Troy himself who scored against GM Sports in the Nadkarni Cup 2015 where they lost 3-1.

With this win RCF has now 9 points in the Elite Division so far.

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Both the teams began the game looking to play safe and were hardly making any attacking moves in the first quarter of the game until GM Sports drew first blood. In the 29th minute Sushil Kawde set up a nice move playing a wonderful ball to Micheal Idewele, who cleverly beat Central Bank’s goalkeeper Sarfaraz Ansari.

Central Bank were not able to make any effective moves with the play breaking up after every two or three passes . Even after having the likes of an experienced Melwin Vaz in the midfield it still seemed things were  not working for the bankers in the first half.

Towards the end of the first half the game sparked to life with Russel Galbano making a solo run on the left flank, having made his way into the box Russel took a powerful shot that was a well blocked by goalkeeper Gautam Kanojia.

The second half saw Central Bank make a swift comeback in the 64^th minute, when Egypsio Naronha dribbled past GM Sports’ left back Atish Koli inside the box and found himself with the keeper at his mercy, he made no mistake with the finish, bringing the game back on level terms.

The goal meant that things then began going well for Central Bank of India whereas GM Sports losing their focus, were unable  to gain control of the game. CBI then made a substitution sending out Scott D’souza, who with his good physic and ball control proved to be a valuable change as the bankers looked menacing with every scoring opportunity, coming close on various occassions.

Later in the 78^th minute, CBI took the lead through Scott D’souza as he made it 2-1, it was a combined effort when Jagjeet Singh made a run down the left flank and cut inside, playing a pass to centre half Melvin Vaz, who laid it off  for Scott, unmarked in the box, he made the best of this scoring opportunity, firing the ball home.

GM Sports were caught in trauma with these two goals, having been in the lead in the first half, they now had to chase the game. It din’t take long for Central Bank to get their third, as Hasan’s Golwala chest trap deep in defence created a trouble for GM in the 85th minute as he took slip while trapping the ball, it was Andrew who pounced on this mistake and made a forward pass to Egypsio Noronha. Having scored earlier, Egypsio once again got his name on the score sheet after finishing it well at the near post.

It was quite a turn of events in the 2nd half as Central Bank put three goals past GM Sports, to earn themselves their first win in their opening game.

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