G.M. Sports Club were a determined lot and managed to carve out a hard-fought 2-1 win against Kenkre FC in an Elite Division match of the Rustomjee-MDFA League 2019-2020 and played at the Cooperage ground on Sunday.
In a keenly contested encounter between two evenly balanced teams, G.M. Sports Club wrested the advantage with a 10th minute strike by Harsh Rall who scored from a snap effort to give his team a slender 1-0 lead.
Kenkre FC fought back and did well to cancel out G.M. Sports lead when striker Yash Mhatre found the back of the net in the 43rd minute and the teams went into the break on level terms at 1-all.
However, soon after resumption, G.M. Sports were lucky to regain the lead when Kenkre FC defender Aadil Ansari by mistake directed the ball into his own goal. Thereafter, G.M. Sports defended well to deny Kenkre from scoring the equalizer.
Results – Elite Div: G.M. Sports Club 2 (Harsh Rall 10th, Aadil Ansari-OG 48th) beat Kenkre FC 1 (Yash Mhatre 43rd).