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Calangute Association Sports Club booked their place into the finals of the Vagator Soccer 2018 (UK Cup), organised by Vagator PYSC, with a fluent 3-1 win over Don Bosco Oratory Fatorda, at Vagator Ozran grounds, on Saturday.
Calangute’s top scorer, Aiken Dias, could have put his team ahead in the 6th minute, but his strike off a pass from Namresh Kundikar hit the upright. At the other end, in the 15th minute, former Sporting player Francis Andrade’s strike missed the
target narrowly.
Don Bosco almost scored in the 19th minute, where a shot from Necil Pinto hit Calangute’s Dominic Fernandes and the ball hit the crossbar. Finally, the Calangute colts broke the deadlock in the 31st minute, where Runal Shirodkar set up Dominic, who scored with an adroit placement, 1-0.
On crossing over, Don Bosco missed a glorious opportunity to level terms as Necil Pinto failed to guide the ball into the goal after Cayen Araujo had done the spadework. In the 46th minute, Calangute doubled their lead with Namresh Kundaikar placing the ball into the nets off a cross from Vichal
Vaigankar, 2-0.
Aiken Dias, the playmaker and top scorer for Calangute colts, then superbly curled his free kick from the left flank past the Don Bosco keeper, 3-0. In the last quarter of the match, Don Bosco came back into the match with Necil Pinto finally scoring off a pass from Ashley Araujo, 3-1.
Once again Don Bosco were unlucky as they failed to score from the penalty spot. Calangute keeper Selwyn D’Souza saved Roque Borges’ spot kick, which earned him the Man of the
match award.
