An astonishing win for UP Yoddha and they remain in race for the playoffs. Rishank started the raid and went back empty handed whil Abol Fazel got a point in his first raid. Shrikant Jadhav scored first point for UP Yoddha in 4th minute. UP Yoddha accelerated their pace and reduced U Mumba to 3, back to back 2 super tackles by Surender Singh brought UMumba back in the game were able to hold the lead till 12th minute.
UP yoddha leveled the score to 8-8 in the 13th minute and inflicted the first all-out in the 14th minute and took 3 points lead. It was collective effort of UP Yoddha attack and defense led by Prashant Kumar Raid with 4 raid points and Shrikant Jadhav 3 points that they made a come-back. Siddharth Desai could not score a point in his 4 raid attempts and also aggravated his solder injury and was substituted by Darshan Kadian. UP Yoddha walked into the half time with 3 points cushion, 18-15.
Nitesh started the second half with his brilliant ankle hold and sent Abol Fazl on the bench. Darshan Kadian accelerated U Mumba pace with his 2 points raid in the 22nd minute and UP Yodha were all-out in the 23rd minute and score was leveled, 20-20.
It remained a close game till the 32nd minute, Rishank Devadiga's 2 points raid in the 33rd minute gave 3 points lead to UP Yoddha and were able to hold the lead till 38th minute. Last 2 minutes were absolute thriller. Rohit's 2 point raid leveled the score to 31-31. Prashanth scored a point take the lead and in the last minute Darshan Kadian pushed Nitesh out of the mat and score was leveled again. Moment of the match was Prashant Kumar Rai's 2 points raid under pressure to snatch away the win, 34-32.
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