Vipul Gorai FC scored once in each half and romped to a comfortable 2-0 win against Sporting Options FC in a pre-quarter-final match of the Republic Day football tournament for the Nitu Mandke Cup organized by Mumbai Football Association (MFA) and played at the Neville D’Souza ground, Bandra on Wednesday. Strikers Bharat Rawal and Ritesh Choudhary struck a goal each to seal Vipul Gorai’s win and seal a spot in the quarter-finals.
Earlier, Kopana FC got the better of Don Bosco Academy by a narrow 1-0 margin. Striker Mitesh Suryavanshi netted the decisive winning goal to carry Kopana FC into the last eight.
Results – Republic Day (Pre-quarter-finals): Mumbai United FC 3 (Hitesh Patel, Axel Peters, Faiz Shaikh) beat Companeroes SC 2 (Bryce Dias, Joshua D’Souza).
Kopana FC 1 (Mitesh Suryavanshi) beat Don Bosco Academy 0,
Vipul Gorai 2 (Bharat Rawal, Ritesh Choudhary) beat Sporting Options FC 0.