Mumbai and Nagpur won their respective pre-quarter-final matches to book their place in the last 8 round of the Maharashtra (WIFA) Inter District Football Championship for Sub-Junior Boys held in Nashik.
Mumbai celebrte their goal vs Chandrapur
Mumbai recorded the biggest win of the day as they thrashed Chandrapur 7-0. Mumbai took a first half 1-0 lead thanks to a Ridge D’Mello strike in the 26th minute. Mumbai scored their second goal in the 44th minute through Lance Fernandes and that opened the floodgates as Fernandes scored again two minutes later to make it 3-0. Later goals from Ridge D’Mello, a brace from Manan Dang and a goal from Utkarsh Rawat made it a final score of 7-0 in Mumbai’s favour.
Nagpur too eased into the quarter-finals after thumping Hingoli 5-0. Furkan Raza netted a brace for Nagpur while Abrar Mohammed, Anas Ansari and Nikhil Durge scored a goal each for the team from the city of oranges. In the last game of the day, Pune District overcame Ahmednagar 1-0 courtesy of a Chaitanya Advani penalty in the second half just minutes after Ahmednagar had their goal ruled out for offside.
Jalna too raised a few eyebrows when they had no problems dispatching a Thane side 3-0, with Karan Waghmare, Anas Khan and Ankit Nirmal getting on the scoresheet for the central Maharashtrian district. Hosts Nashik dished out yet another superb performance in their 3-1 success over Beed in the pre-quarters as RutigAhirrao and Bindusar Chaudhary scored for a third game in a row helping the home side to book a Quarter Final place.