MOHAMMED Ikram came off the bench to grab three valuable points for Paak.

In scrappy yet tense game at times United had the better of the play early on. Midfielder Shafiq Sidiq was being given far too much room in the first ten minutes of the game but United failed to take advantage.

It toook a couple of close shaves before Paak woke up. Alam Ghir went close from on the half-hour mark with a shot from 30 yards out. The first half was full of niggly fouls though and much of the play remained in the middle of the field. United's Nadeem Hussain and Paak's Majid Ahmed were excellent there.

The game came alive five minutes from the break when Nasser Hussain stole in at the far post to put Paak into the lead. Within sixty seconds though United had equalised. Left back Ismail Mulla's attempted cross ended up in the back of the net.

Paak started the second half better but couldn't convert any of the chances. United's new keeper Fayyaz Bharucha pulled off a magnificent save from Javed on 55 minutes. As the game wore Paak seemed to get better and remained threatening, especially from corners.

However, with ten minutes to go United were reduced to ten men when Nadeem Hussain was sent off for dessent. A shame that, seen as he would have picked up the man of the match award.

Two minutes later an almighty scramble which saw the ball cleared off the line three times ended with Paak substitute Ikram scoring. United then pushed forward but couldn't breach the Paak defence.