Odisha FC gamers have a good time after beating Bengaluru FC 2-1 in the Super Cup last on April 25, 2023
The man with the ISL’s golden boot struck twice inside an area of quarter-hour to lead Odisha FC to its best second. The two objectives in the opening half from Diego Mauricio gave Odisha the Super Cup on an unusually moist Tuesday night time. Odisha gained the ultimate towards Bengaluru FC 2-1 and thus its first trophy.
While it was the first-ever last for Odisha, it was the third of the season for Bengaluru. For Simon Grayson’s boys, it proved the second defeat in a last in as many months; that they had misplaced the ISL last to ATK Mohun Bagan in a shootout.
Odisha’s magnificent 4 up entrance — Mauricio, Nandhakumar, Victor Rodriguez and Jerry Mawihmingthanga — had been anticipated to trigger complications to the formidable Bengaluru defence, and so they did.
The first objective got here extra off a surprising piece of goalkeeping from the usually reliable Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, who was the player-of-the-match in the semifinal towards Jamshedpur FC. He made a multitude of the free-kick from Mauricio and watched in agony the ball going previous the goalline.
Soon Mauricio doubled the lead for Bengaluru, as he slotted the ball residence off a positive header from Jerry, who had been given a wonderful cross by Rodriguez. Bengaluru started the second half with 4 adjustments and Sunil Chhetri’s objective from the penalty spot – Sivasakthi Narayanan was fouled by Aniket Jadhav – late into the match gave the group some hope. But this night time belonged to the Odisha coach Clifford Miranda and his boys.
The outcome: Odisha FC (Diego Mauricio 23 and 38) 2 bt Bengaluru FC 1 (Sunil Chhetri 85).
