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Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Nashik make the semi-finals.
Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and Nashik District overcame the Quarter Final hurdle to reach the semi-finals of the Maharashtra Inter District Football Championship for Sub-Junior Boys held in Nashik. Mumbai and Pune recorded big wins on course to the last four, while Nagpur and Nashik had to find a way past considerable resistance to reach the penultimate round.
Satara came into the Quarter Final game against Mumbai in top form after slamming twenty goals in the first three rounds. However they met their match in the shape of Mumbai who took the game to Satara right from the word go and pushed them back in their own half.
Satara resisted the pressure well in the first quarter of the game, but the pressure eventually told in the 18th minute when Ridge D’Mello pounced on a rebound off the Satara goalkeeper who had made a reflex save to deny Mumbai just moments earlier.
Mumbai had their tails up after the first goal and doubled their tally just six minutes later through Atharv Shinde as Mumbai went into the interval on the front foot.
The second half had a similar pattern as the first half as Satara had their hands full dealing with the Mumbai attacks. In the 39th minute Utsav Pradhan killed the game as a contest by scoring Mumbai’s third goal which seemed to have knocked the stuffing out of the young Satara side.
Two minutes later Cornius Rodricks made it 4-0 for Mumbai before Utsav Pradhan once again popped up with a goal five minutes later as Mumbai were on course to make a real statement.
Ridge D’Mello then got on the score sheet in the 51st minute to score Mumbai’s sixth goal. Mumbai rounded off their scoring with two quick fire goals from Josho D’Souza and Atharva Shinde to make it a final score of 8-0 in Mumbai’s favour.
In another Quarter Final encounter, Nagpur dished out a dominant first half display to down Jalna 3-1.
