Indian Navy dished out a fine disciplined performance to clinch a deserving 4-3 win against Western Railway in a Pool-C league match of the 49th Bombay Gold Cup Hockey Championship, organised by the Mumbai Hockey Association Limited at the MHAL Stadium, Churchgate on Monday.
Amit Goswami, skipper Amit Kiro, Naveen Kumar and Mohd Faheem Khan scored a goal each for Navy who led 1-0 at end of the first half. Western Railway got their goals through a brace from Malak Singh and one from Amit Rohidass.
The naval outfit showed good understanding and worked in tandem as a team to make inroads towards the Western citadel. They also created the better opening and converted most of the chances that came their way. On the other hand Western looked out of sort and were a disjointed lot. They did not seem to have a game plan and their passing and distribution were dismal.
Navy rocked the Western goal in the 23rd minute when from a goalmouth scramble to the ball deflected to Goswami who was unmarked near the right post. He made no mistake in hitting home to give the sailors a first half 1-0 lead.
After switching ends, Navy skipper Kiro scored from their second penalty corner with a firm hit which flew into the net off a defender's stick in the 41st minute.
Western managed to get back into the match with Rohidass converting a penalty corner in the 43rd minute and later Malak scoring the second to level the scores at 2-all. However, Navy produced another solid charge scoring two more goals in as many minutes to take a commanding 4-2 lead. First Naveen Kumar scored the third goal in the 62nd minute and then Faheem Khan stuck the fourth two minutes later.
Western reduced the margin through Malak Singh scoring the third in the final minute.
Stopwatch: Pool-C league: Indian Navy 4 (Amit Goswami 23rd, Amit Kiro 41st, Naveen Kumar 62nd, Mohd Faheem Khan 64th) beat Western Railway 3 (Amit Rohidass 43rd, Malak Singh 56th, 69th).
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