Although, this season the league is starting late but the teams are raring to go and perform.

Mahindras will, surely, enjoy an upper hand against Policemen who have won a promotion from Senior Division. Last season, Mahindras finished runners-up to Bengal Mumbai Football Club (BMFC) despite a bad start.

Mahindras team management are yet to receive the inter-state clearances of Chrsitopher and Surmani Singh.

Manjit Singh -- highest goal scorer last year -- was nursing a thigh injury, will be ably supported by Nitin Pradhan and Abbas Ali Rizvi. A strong mid-field -- Shamshi Raza, Satish Minz, Andrew Luois and Aqueel Ansari are fit and skillful enough of controlling the game.

While MSP is a team which is always unpredictable and capable of making surprises. Coach Francis Fernandes is confident of a good show by his team. ``We will play positive and attackingfootball. We have couple of injuries but that will not change my plans.''