Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 23: The second phase of first Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Memorial Gold Cup League Football Tournament-2017 began at Synthetic Turf TRC, here today.
The winners of 16 district/zones of Kashmir province and will be played on knockout basis.
In all, 15 matches will be played in the second phase.
In the first match of the day, SK Budgam FC defeated Salman FC Handwara by two goals to nil (2-0).
In the first half an hour, no team could break the defence lines of each other, but Fayaz Ahmad managed to score the first goal for SK Budgam FC.
Trailing by a goal, Salman FC Handwara stepped up attacks on opposite goal, but they failed to capitalize the opportunities. The first half ended with scoreline reading 1-0 in favour of SK Budgam FC. Handwara team made several attempts to score an equalizer, but failed to do so.
In between, Mehran Farooq managed to double the lead for the winning team in the 67th minute of the match.
In the last minute of the play, while Handwara team was desperate to score, the Budgam team concentrated more on preserving the lead.
As the referee blew the final whistle, the scoreline read 2-0 in favour of SK Budgam FC.
In the second match of the day, Real Wanpora FC Kulgam defeated Shaheen FC SHopian by an identical margin of 2-0.
Tawseef Ahmad managed to score a goal in the 13th minute.
Leading by a goal, the Kulgam players continued their attacks on Shopian team goalpost and in 27th minute, Zahoor Ahmad doubled the lead for them.
For rest of the match, no further goals were scored and the match ended 2-0 in favour of Real Wanpora FC Kulgam.
The winner and runners-up teams of this phase will qualify for third phase of the event with six premier clubs and two Jammu province teams. The matches of the third phase will be played in Jammu.
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