PKL-7: UP Warrior in the playoffs for the third time in a row.

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UP Warriors thrashed the in-form Dabang Delhi 50-33 to enter the playoffs of the seventh season of Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) on the back of Monu Goyat and Srikanth Jadhav. The UP Warriors became the sixth team to reach the playoffs by winning in front of their home crowd in the home leg match played at the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex here on Saturday. The team reached the playoffs for the third consecutive time.

The Jaipur Pink Panthers' journey came to a halt this season as UP reached the playoffs. The hero of this victory for UP was Monu Goyat who took 11 red points with Super-10.
At the same time, Srikanth also took nine red points.

Sombir was the most successful player from Dabang Delhi and he completed six high points and took six tackles and also got 3 red points. While young raider Neeraj Narwal also took the first Super-10 of his career, scoring 11 red points.

Dabang Delhi had decided to give rest to all their senior players in this match. Among them were Naveen Kumar, Joginder Narwal, Ravinder Pahal, Vishal Mane, Chandran Ranjit Shalim. The team was headed by Meraj Sheikh and the young Delhi Perk was with him.

This is the fourth win in five matches of the UP Warrior over Dabang Delhi in PKL history and the first win this season. This is the second consecutive defeat of Dabang Delhi. Delhi however still holds the number-one position.