Mumbai Knights FA played with tremendous resilience and managed to score twice in the final five minutes to record a satisfying 2-0 win against Young Guns FC in a Women’s Super Division match of the Mumbai Football Association (MFA) League 2022-2023, played at the Neville D’Souza ground, Bandra on Sunday.
The highlights of Mumbai Knights victory was the brilliance of Sai Sankhe who struck both the goals.
In an evenly contested encounter, both Mumbai Knights and Young Guns fought tooth and nail and there were plenty of goal-scoring attempts at both ends. But, both teams were unable to find the net for most of the match.
Mumbai Knights finally broke the deadlock when Sai showed good opportunism to score the opening goal in the 85th minute. Three minutes later Sai Sankhe once again hit the target, scoring the second goal to seal Mumbai Knights victory and to collect all the three points.
Earlier, in another women’s match, South Mumbai United and PIFA Sports shared honours as they played out a goalless draw and split two points.
Results – Women Super Div: South Mumbai United 0 drew with PIFA Sports 0.
Mumbai Knights FA 2 (Sai Sankhe 2) beat Young Guns FC 0.