RAIA: Dicarpale Sports Club scraped past Maina Sports Club 3-2 via tie-breaker to move to the semi-finals of the 17th All Goa Guirdolim Panchayat Cup organised by Guirdolim Club at Chandor church sports complex ground, on Tuesday.
The match started with Maina Sports Club putting Dicarpale SC on the defensive. Jameson Noronha of Maina SC was at his creative best spraying precision passes to his forward line at will. The Maina SC forwards seemed to have left their scoring boots at home as they couldn’t convert easy chances that came their way.
Dicarpale SC created only one chance in the first half but Bonny Niasso failed to connect to a Donald Rocha through ball.
At the lemon break the score read 0-0. Changing ends, Maina SC created quite a few scoring opportunities but Baccha couldn’t convert any of these. A long range effort by Caitano Viegas of Maina SC was tipped over for a corner kick by the Dicarpale SC keeper in the 46th minute. Dicarpale SC seemed to have parked the bus and were successful in taking the match to the tie-breaker.
In the ensuing tie-breaker, Dicarpale SC scored through Rajim, Milton and Ajay, while for Maina SC only Jameson and Marcus were successful. Dicarpale Sports Club will now meet Verna Sports Club in the semi-final.
Jameson Noronha of Maina Sports Club was awarded the man-of-the-match award by Darwin Cardoso, general secretary of Guirdolim Club.
