FC Pune City churned out another sterling performance and emerged champions winning the Super Division title. The Pune outfit maintained their impressive unbeaten record as they defeated Iron Born FC Under-19 by a comfortable 4-0 margin in the concluding Super Division match of the Rustomjee-MDFA League 2018-2019 and played at the Neville D’Souza ground, Bandra late on Sunday evening.
The players, coaches and support staff of FC Pune City pose with the Super Division title along with Chief Guest, Clarence Lobo, hockey coach .
The young Pune outfit was a disciplined lot dished a pleasing 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.
Results – Super Div: FC Pune City 4 (Akhil Rawat, Mark Zothanpuia, Laldawnkima Lalngathawma, Johnson Singh) beat Iron Born FC U-19 0.
ICL Payyade 4 (Aaron Olaide 4) beat Reliance Foundation 1 (Zidan Ningthoujam).
Chheda Nagar 2 (Gaurav Adhikari 2) beat Juhu Sparks 1(Tyson Pereira).