Champs Millwal crash out

MUMBAI: Favourites and defending champions Millwal FC crashed out in the quarter-final play-off round of the men’s Premier Division of the 10th Bandra West Football League 2013, organised by the BWFA (Bandra West Football Association). Millwal succumbed to a 1-3 defeat at the hands of Athletico Bandra in a keenly fought match at the Dr. Norman Lewis Supari Talao Municipal ground. For the winners Garfield Pereira netted a brace and Ben Fernandes one, while Sumin Ravindran got the consolation goal for the losers. Companeroes Sports Club, too, suffered a shock defeat as they went down to Bandra Packers 1-2 in a charged up encounter. Striker Julius Pesso played a key role as he struck both the goals to ensure Packers’ passage to the semi-finals. Companeroes reduced the Printed and Published by G. L. Lakhotia for the Proprietors, Indian National Press (Bombay) P. Ltd., at Journal Press, Free Press House, Free Press Journal Marg, 215, Nariman Point, Mumbai-400 021. Tel: 22874566, Advt. Dept. 22872289. Fax: 022-22874688. E-mail: mail@fpj.co.in • OFFICE: Indore: 3/54, Press Complex, A. B. Road, Indore-452 008,

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