Mumbai City FC Beat Mohammedan Sporting 3-1 In Durand Cup
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Mumbai City FC (MCFC) defeated local favourites Mohammedan Sporting 3-1 in the Durand Cup in Kolkata
Mumbai City FC (MCFC) defeated local favourites Mohammedan Sporting 3-1 in the Durand Cup at the Kishore Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Saturday. Playing their first match of the 132nd Durand Cup, the Islanders were three up in the first 35 minutes of the game, but the Black and White brigade made a game of it after their confidence was boosted by a David Lalhlansanga strike. Rostyn Griffiths, Jorge Peryra Diaz and Lalianzuala Chhangte scored for the winners. This was the first match of Group B which also has Jamshedpur FC and the Indian Navy as part of it.
The Islanders got on the board as early as the 12th minute when Australian defender Griffiths rose high on the back post off a corner by talisman Greg Stewart, to head home. The ball hit the underside of the bar before going in.
The second goal came just over 10 minutes later from another foreigner, this time their Argentine forward Jorge Peryra Diaz, who tapped in a rebound off keeper Jongte, after Spaniard Alberto Ripoll had shot at the goal.
Ripoll then helped put the issue to rest about 10 more minutes later, when he found Bipin Singh's surging run on the left flank.
Bipin's measured cross across the face of goal found Chhangte at the end of it, who made no mistake.
