Football championship; Pune girls beat Nagpur to enter final

Pune got the better of Nagpur 6-4 via the tie-breaker in the second semi-final of the MDFA-organised LIC-Maharashtra State Inter-District Senior Women’s Football Championship at Cooperage yesterday

Pune got the better of Nagpur 6-4 via the tie-breaker in the second semi-final of the MDFA-organised LIC-Maharashtra State Inter-District Senior Women’s Football Championship at Cooperage yesterday.

Pune striker Hiba Faquih (right) is tackled by a Nagpur defender during their inter-district semi-final at Cooperage yesterday

The match ended 1-1 at the end of regulation time after Nagpur’s Nikita Karmarkar saw her goal cancelled out by Pune’s Smriti Girish. The final will be played at Cooperage at 5pm today.

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