Calcutta, June 28 :     MD. SPORTING 1 TFA 0 Striker Trijit Das is blessed with lovely ball skills. Mohammad Quijeer has the pace upfront, stoppers Satish Bharti and Sur Kumar Singh the cool heads under pressure. And goalkeeper Surojit Chatterjee?s lightening reflexes are a treat. As one has come to expect of the Tata Football Academy, talent reared its head time and again during their fifth McDowell Cup group A league match at the Salt Lake Stadium today. But their team did not. Going into what was essentially a shootout for a semi-final berth with Mohammedan Sporting, TFA looked a disjointed, rudderless unit for much of the time today. A draw would have clinched the issue for them, but an Aslam Parvez goal some 12 minutes before the final whistle made sure that was not to be. They will now have to leave for Jamshedpur, while Mohammedan Sporting brace themselves for a possible semi-final showdown with East Bengal. With Mohun Bagan having handed them the advantage ? by scoring a goal more against Mohammedan Sporting ? one had expected TFA to use it in their tactics, but there was nothing in their game to suggest that. For Mohammedan Sporting, it was a must-win situation, and the pressure on them must have increased manifold after the opening half ended goalless. Yet, instead of piling on that pressure by frustrating their opponents with a pressing game in midfield, TFA plunged into an attack that left gaping holes in their defence. Disaster was round the corner but when it did come, it was almost out of the blue. Parvez, who got very few opportunities to move up from his stopper-back position because TFA forwards Trijit and Quijeer presented a real threat, let loose a 45-yard drive. The shot, more out of desperation than design, beat Chatterjee and, to the horror of the TFA camp, the ball dipped into goal. The TFA goalkeeper will have to take a great deal of blame for the goal for being hopelessly out of position. It is an irony, because it was his brilliant saves earlier that had kept his team in the game. The best was when, half-an-hour into the match, he denied Nazimul Haque from point-blank range, reacting in a flash to block the volley with his left arm. Then, some 10 minutes later, he rose and stretched to deflect a firm left-footed drive from Ranjan Majhi. TFA too had their chance in this half with Roghui Singh squandering two of them, a drive from some 15 yards out missing its mark and then following a floater from Napoleon Singh but failing to make a proper connection with the head. The second half saw more urgency in the Mohammedan Sporting camp, but very little of note happened ? till that fateful goal. The TFA boys leave for intensive training in Germany next month. They?ll have to learn quickly that football is still about scoring goals. And also about not letting in many. TEAMS MOHAMMEDAN SPORTING: Shanti Majumdar; Mohammad Ali Reza, Debashis Hazra, Aslam Parvez, Sheik Sikandar; Joy Kabui (Sandip Das 76th), Ohidul Islam, Arjan Ali; P. Manoharan (Pratap Senapati 57th), Nazimul Haque, Ranjan Majhi (Amitava Ghosh 72nd). TATA FOOTBALL ACADEMY: Surojit Chatterjee; Napoleon Singh, Satish Bharti, Sur Kumar Singh, Amandeep Singh; Zaheer Abbas, Prasant Jaggi (Clifford Miranda 85th), Roghui Singh, K. Samson (Naresh Mann 65th, V.K. Harish 79th); Trijit Das, Mohammad Quijeer. Referee: Gautam Sadhukhan