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Spartans Sports Club came up with a dogged fight back to share the spoils with Dadar XI 1-1 in a Division-I match of the
Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) league, played at the Mumbai Port Trust ground, Reay Road on Thursday evening.
The Dadar outfit enjoying a better share of the exchanges early on managed to take the lead through Donald Gibbs in the ninth minute.
But they failed to defend the lead and came under a lot of pressure from the Spartans’ attackers. In an attempt to keep the Spartans forwards at bay defender John Fernandes handled the ball inside the penalaty area in the 57th minute and referee Parag Sawant had no hesitation in pointing to the penalty spot. Aditya Deshmukh stepped forward and coolly converted from the ‘spot’ to put his team on level terms.
Results:
Div-I: Dadar XI 1 (Donald Gibbs) drew with Spartan SC 1 (Aditya Deshmukh
