Lucky Kumari netted a late winner as Bihar junior girls did a remarkable job to knock five-time champions and high-flying Manipur out of the quarterfinals of U-17 Women’s National Football Championship in Guwahati on Wednesday.
Locking horns on the back of their all-win group league records, both teams were upbeat about their chances to progress to the last-four stage of the tournament. But the gritty Bihar girls got the better of their much-fancied opponents in the first quarterfinal of the 2022-23 edition at Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium (IGAS) in the morning match as they rallied to defeat the most decorated side in this category 3-2.
