Union Bank of India produced a good combined performance and stormed to a facile 4-1 win against Century Rayon in an Elite Division match of the MDFA Leagues 2017-18 and played at the Cooperage ground on Monday. Bryce Miranda struck a brace of goals while Ranjeet Pandre and Gaston D’Silva netted one each to complete the scoring for Union Bank, while Zingshopam scored a late consolation goal for the losing side.
The Union Bank outfit were better organised in both attack and defence and held the upper hand. They took the lead in the 40th minute through their consistent scorer Pandre and went into the break with a slender 1-0 advantage.
The bankers continued to call the shots on resumption and struck great form in the final quarter scoring three goals during this period to run away clear winners. D’Silva struck the second goal in the 74th minute and three minute later Miranda scored the first of his two goals to increase the lead 3-0. Miranda was again on target scoring the fourth in the 85th minute before Century Rayon managed to reduce the margin of defeat through Zingshopam’s strike in the final minute of the match.
Results –Elite Div: Union Bank of India 4 (Ranjeet Pandre 40th, Gaston D’Silva 74th, Bryce Miranda 77th, 85th) beat Century Rayon 1 (Zingshopam S. 89th).