MPC Vs Morang Tarun Club girls playing soccer at the Dasarath stadium, Monday. MPC outplay Morang 3-0.
Kathmandu, Feb. 28: Chandra Bhandari of Youth Sports Club of Kailali slammed first hat-trick of the Women Football Committee-Mangala Devi National Women’s League Championship as her team annihilated Makwanpur’s Yuwa Club 8-0 to earn some vital points of the league fixtures.
Earlier in the first match, Mahendra Police team outplayed Morang’s Tarun Club 3-0.
The First phase champion of Far-Western Region-the Kailali girls took control over the game from the beginning of the match and never looked threatened by the Makwanpur girls. In fact, all eight goals of were scored with little efforts as the Makwanpur team were never seen making any inroads into the Kailali’s citadel.
So rampaging were the Kailali’ girls that out of eight goals, five were scored in the first half. Mamta Gurung scored first goal from a free kick outside the penalty area in the 7th minute of the play while Sita Thapa hit second goal in the 16th minute. In the 26th minute Madhu Thapa scored third goal. Bhandari and Mamta added fourth and fifth goal in 29 and 26th minutes of the game respectively.
After the lemon break, the Makwanpur girls have tough time blocking the harrowing Kailali forwards. Just three minutes into the second half, Bhandari scored her individual second and her team’s sixth goal. She added another in the 60th minute to register herself as the first hat-trick scorer of the tournament. Sita scored the eighth goal in71st minute to complete the whitewash of Makwanpur girls.
Earlier, during the Morang-MPC encounter, the physically superior MPC girls made effective forays to beat the skillful Morang girls. Rita B.K. gave MPC the lead in the 6th minute while Arpana Dewan consolidated the lead in the 12th minute. After the lemon break, Bhagawati Rana scored MPC’s third goal to seal the fate of the Morang girls. In the first encounter tomorrow Saptari girls will play Kathmandu girls while in the second Banke will take on Jhapa girls.