20th November 2017, Mumbai: M.S Police began their campaign yesterday in a tricky encounter against Union Bank of India (UBI) in the MDFA – Mumbai District Football Association Elite Division clash at Cooperage Stadium. In what turned out to be a one-sided affair, in-form striker Scott Ray D’Souza scored four past M.S Police to record their second win in three games.

It took Union Bank of India (UBI) just two minutes to open the scoring when Scott Ray D’Souza fired in a thunderous shot in the back of the net. Six minutes later, the tall and talismanic striker increased UBI’s lead by two goals to leave their counterpart M.S Police in disbelief and agony.

Despite being 2-0 up, the approach by UBI players didn’t change as they kept looking for more goals. Attacking midfielder Valentine Pereira, Ranjeet Pandre and Shanon combined well and worked as a proper attacking unit to feed Scott upfront.

In the 15th minute, Scott completed his hat-trick, the first of Elite Division, with a close-range strike. M.S Police responded well after conceding the third goal but couldn’t manage to handle UBI’s pressure in the final third. On the stroke of half-time, Valentine Pereira got on the scoresheet with a delicate goal to wrap up the game in the first-half itself.

The second-half started where it had left off. Scott Ray D’Souza rounded the M.S Police goalkeeper Tousif Ansari to take his goal tally to six goals from three games which is a remarkable feat. Tousif later saved Shamer Swamy’s penalty but didn’t manage to stop UBI’s Kshitij to score the sixth goal of the game in the 88th minute.

Undoubtedly, a resounding victory by Union Bank of India (UBI) with an impressive attacking display. They have been surely a side to watch so far in Elite Division. Not to forget, their defense also played a key part yesterday with Sherwyn Chang, Sandesh Puthran, Riddic Carlo and Siddharth Shetty delivering a stand-out performance to keep M.S Police shut.

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After a topsy-turvy week, we have finally managed to reach the day where Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) semi finals will be played at Poinsur gymkhana, Kandivali.

Football Counter brings to you an exclusive round up article of all the results that took place over the week in the build up to the semi finals. All the 8 teams were divided in a group of 4 each with groups being called Group X and Group Y.

Group X consisted of M.S.Police , DECA, Mumbai Strikers and Millat FC whereas Group Y incorporated Air India U-19, Mumbai FC U-19, Dena Bank and Sellebrity SC

Day 1 of the playoff saw Group X in action. DECA taking on Mumbai Strikers and M.S.Police facing off against Millat FC. DECA manged to edge Mumbai Strikers by one goal to nil while M.S.Police beat Millate FC by 2-0

Day 2 had Group Y  matches. Sellebrity SC’s clash with Air India U19 and Dena Bank going head to head against Mumbai FC U19. Air India U19 beat Sellebrity SC by 2-0. Dena Bank were 3-1 victors over Mumabi FC U19.

Day3 : Group X

M.S.Police 2-0 DECA

Mumbai Strikers 3-0 Millat FC

Day 4: Group Y

Dena Bank 5-2 Sellebrity SC

Air India U19 2-1 Mumbai FC U19

Day 5: Group X decider

Mumbai Strikers faced M.S Police to determine the winner of group X. It was Mumbai Strikers who defeated  M.S.Police by 3-1 to top the group X qualifying for the semi finals.

Group 6: Group Y decider

Dena Bank and Air India U19 locked horns to determine the group winner of group Y. It was Dena Bank who managed to edge Air India U19 by 1-0 topping group Y.

There you go guys. A roller coaster of 6 days and it still does not end here as everyone of us is waiting for the winner to emerge

Semi final 1: Mumbai Strikers vs Air India U19

Semi final 2: Dena Bank vs M.S.Police

See you all at he Poinsur gymkhana ground for the all exciting semi final matches

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M.S.Police raced to a 5-1 victory over Sunday Boys on Friday in the second game of the day. It was all M.S.Police since the kickoff as they looked to take an early lead refusing to sit back. Young Boys were very cautious in the gameplay and that kept the score at 0-0. But it number 12 Nitin Waati who put M.S.Police ahead from the corner in the 14th minute. Number 10 Himket Dembre doubled their lead in the 36th minute. And they were not done yet for the 1st half as number 7 Swapnil Mane scored immediately in the very next minute making it 3-0. An astounding three goal lead. Sunday Boys scored one just before halftime in the 41st minute when Aston netted a lovely goal for them.

But the game looked all in favor of M.S.Police in the second half who were in no mood to let their opposition make a comeback. And they put any chance of a comeback to bed in the 57th minute when Himket Dembre scored his second of the game. A well deserved brace for him. And they rounded off their scoring in the 61st minute when Swapnil Mane scored his second of the game. A staggering 5-1 of a scoreline.

At fulltime whistle it was rejoice for M.S.Police who had a field day today. Whereas for Sunday Boys it only one point from their last two games having conceded eight goals.

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Mode of Competition
The teams in the group will play Preliminary League on a single leg basis. The three teams standing 1st, 2nd and 3rd after completion of the Preliminary League from each group will be qualify for Super Six. later another Preliminary league on a single leg basis between six teams. First two will be the Winner and runners up for the season 2013-2014. There will be no relegation hence below 14 teams will be there for the next season 2014-2015 with other 2 qualified teams from the super division. 

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Mumbai customs played an outstanding come back in the second half, they overcome from a goal deficit scored by Hekmat singh in the 64^th minute, when Sagar Bedekar wrongly brought down by Vivek singh kaira awarded a free kick to custom, Praneel Mendon’s power full shot got fumbled through goalkeeper Razak devsur’s hand landed into Hekmat Singh’s feet and then the joy of happiness among the entire crew.

Each half dedicated to Air India, Mumbai custom respectively. Air india took control over the game at the beginning only. N D Opara foreign recruit is tough to handle for Mumbai custom’s defenders, he keeps trying very frequently and made custom goal keeper Lihaz Koya busy in the box. Foreign recruit Emanuel Aja scored through a beautiful header, Monish Bhamre pull down Air India’s Jonychand sign awarded a free kick to Yogesh Rawat to curl the ball for Emanuel’s to test his heading skill.

Both the team were on their toes to get more numbers on the scoreboard but couldn’t make more than one and match ended with 1-1 and the result would be decided into a tie breaker. For Air India Emanuel Aja, Bhusan tumbe, N D Opara scored where as for Mumbai custom Kevin Patric was the lone scorer. Air Inida’s Allan Dias missed the target; his shot was easy save for Lihaz Koya. Mumbai custom had bad luck as their first two attempts got saved, Sajjad Alam and substitute Zinto zose and later Ashirwad hegde joined the club. The Match had a nice pace and got some hard and rough tackles, Referee Gadhe had nice control over the game, he booked two Air India players; Yogesh Rawat, Sidharth Nayak and Mumbai  custom’s Hekmat singh for yellow cards.

Other played matches – Pre quarter final

RCF & GM S.C

RCF won by 2 goals to NIL   2 – 0
Scorers for RCF Ajoy Kumar Singh scored the 1st goal by neatly tapping the ball with a fine placement to the right of the Goal keeper in the 40th minute & 2nd goal was scored in the 70th minute by Piyokumar with a neat placement to the far corner of the net.

AIR INDIA V/S Union Bank.

AIR INDIA won the match 2 – 1.
AIR INDIA Opened the account through Jonychand Singh in the 51st minute and the 2nd goal was scored by N.D. Opara in the 79th minute during the run of play which ultimately turned out to be the match winner. Aaron D’cost reduced the margin by scoring the lone goal for Union Bank.

M.S. POLICE v/s KENKRE FC

M.S.POLICE WON 3 – 1
Abdul Jaffar scored 2 goals and 1 Goal scored by Mohsin Mohammed.
For Kenkre the lone scorer was Yash Mhatre.

ONGC    v/s   COMPANEROES

ONGC 3 COMPANEROES NIL
Kailash Patil scored 2 goals in 4 minutes midway in the second half &
3rd Goal for ONGC came through Sathish.

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