It was not a happy ending for United Punjab Football Club, Mahilpur as they were forced to share points after playing 2-2 draw with Border Security Force in Round II match of the ongoing 28th JCT Punjab Super Football League 2014-2015, in its home tie which held at Football Ground of Govt. Secondary School Ground, Mahilpur, which in fact is projected for development by installation of Turf in the coming months. BSF which tasted the defeat in its opener tie against Punjab Police in round-I was desperate to earn full points from this match and BSF camps was full of energy to exhibit skillful game.
In an evenly poised match, the first half saw both the teams taking an aggressive approach in their acts, but the BSF outfit did have a slight advantage over United Punjab FC in the opening minutes. Pawan K Tiwari Jsy No.9 BSF netted in first goal of the match in 5th minute and dominated with continuous raids over UPFC den, but UPFC outfit combined well thereafter and controlled the game and equalizer came in 26th minute through Rohit Kumar, when he made no mistake in placing the ball in an open mouth on the rebound of Machiner the BSF goalkeeper. BSF in-form striker PK Tiwari sustained injury and he had to replace Sarabjit. UPFC lads controlled the game well and dominated the remaining entire first half game. 41st minute saw Aftabvir Jsy No.41 taking a long range shot on BSF den which netted neatly and BSF GK Machhinder who went upfront could not access the shot.
UPFC continued to dominate second half as well, however the substitutions clicked for BSF in later half, BSF skipper combined well with Gurwinder, Hopna Hansda and SS Das and started making raids in UPFC danger zone and 73rd minute saw Sarabjit’s header missed narrowly missed to enter UPFC goal post. 79th minute of the game saw BSF Skipper PH Boy Singh scored the equalizer of match. UPFC having suffered this set back, again initiated some brilliant moves and the dying minutes of the game saw UPFC got couple of scoring chances which Taranjit and Parveen unfortunately missed to convert into goals. Thus both the teams had to content with one point each. BSF next plays PSPCL on 2nd September in its home ground, whereas UPFC next plays JCT Academy at PFA’s neutral venue BILGA.
