Dalbir FA face Chandigarh FA in final

by sportswire4u.blogspot.com

CHANDIGARH, OCT 21 

Dalbir Football Academy, Patiala will cross swords with powerful Chandigarh Football Academy, a venture of the Chandigarh Adminstration, in the10th Administrator's Challenge Cup Football Tournament at the Sector 17 Football Stadium here. The final will be played on October 23 at 2 p.m.

In a hardline cup match Mahilpur Football Academy will challenge Gorkha Training Centre, Shillong on October 23 at 9.00 a.m at Sector 42 Sports Complex.

In the semi-final matches played today, Chandigarh Football Academy drubbed Gorkha Training Centre by 4-0 and  Dalbir Football Academy snuffed out the spirited challenge of Mahilpur Football Academy via penalty shoot outs by 4-1.

With total control over the proceedings, Chandigarh Football Academy outplayed Gorkha Training Centre in all departments of the game. Hot contenders CF Residential Academy and Gorkha Training Centre displayed brilliant game and framed good moves on a number of occasions.

 After the barren first half, the CFA lads mounted pressure and pumped three goals. Inder opened the account  for the winners in the 51st minute. Daniel doubled the margin in the 76th minute of play.The third goal was scored by Samuel in the 79th minute. K.Lal scored the fourth goal for CFA by converting a spot kick in 87th minute.

The second semi-final ended in a contrasting style. The issue was resolved on penalty shoots out after the teams played a goalless draw in the regulation period and 15 minutes of extra time. In penalty shoot out  Dalbir Football Academy prevailed over Mahilpur Football Academy by 4-1.

 Both the teams were locked at 0-0 at the end of stipulated time. Extra time of 15 minutes in two equal halves was given but both the teams were not able to resolve their dispute. To break the deadlock, the tie breaker rule was applied in which Dalbir Football Academy proved their supermacy. During the kicks from the penalty mark Kirpal Singh of Dalbir made no mistake in sending the first shot in goal. The first shot for Mahilpur was taken by Rohin Kumar which was saved brilliantly by Dalbir custodian Agiapal Singh.

The second kick for Dalbir was converted by Santosh Kumar and Manpreet Singh also converted second kick for Mahilpur. The third and fourth kicks of Dalbir were converted by Harpreet and Sukhjit Singh. The third kick for Mahilpur was taken by Baljit Singh who missed the target and kicked the ball but thus Dalbir Football Academy Patiala won the match by 4-1.