Riding on Marc D’Souza’s doubles strikes Mumbai Customs stormed to an authoritative 3-0 win against Central Bank of India in an Elite Division semi-final match of the Rustomjee-MDFA League 2018-2019 and played at the Neville D’Souza ground, Bandra on Wednesday. Gabriel Rosenburg scored the third goal to seal Customs victory and a passage to the final.
Customs dished out a strong determined performance and worked hard, but they struggled initially to break down the Central Bank resistance. However, their efforts paid off just on the stroke of half-time when D’Souza found the net in the second minute of additional period to go into the break with a slender 1-0 advantage.
After changing sides, Customs continued to exert pressure and struck two more goals with D’Souza netting his and the team’s second goal before Rosenburg fired home the third in the 73rd minute.
Results – Elite Div play-offs: Mumbai Customs 3 (Marc D’Souza 45+2nd, Gabriel Rosenburg 73rd) beat Central Bank of India 0.