Bhubaneswar: Super Cup champions Odisha FC revived their AFC Cup marketing campaign with a 6-1 demolition of Maziya Sports & Recreation of Maldives on the Kalinga Stadium on Tuesday.
After defeats towards Mohun Bagan Super Giant and Bashundhara Kings, Odisha lastly acquired factors on the board in Group D, preserving their hopes of development to the knockout stage alive.
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It was a flurry of motion from the opening whistle with Odisha needing solely three minutes to take the lead when Lalthathanga Khawlhring scored on the half-flip after Mourtada Fall had received a header from a nook kick.
Maziya, nevertheless, caught their hosts unexpectedly in the thirteenth minute from a nook kick of their very own. Branimir Jocic met Hamza Mohamed’s supply with a looping header that caught Odisha custodian Amrinder Singh off guard.
The parity lasted simply two minutes as Odisha regained the lead with Carlos Delgado producing an unbelievable header to information the ball previous Hussain Shareef from an Ahmed Jahouh free-kick.
The Kalinga Warriors went on to improve their lead in the nineteenth minute when Delgado turned supplier, establishing Fall for one other header.
After a breathless end-to-end begin to the sport, the match endured a calmer interval and it was solely after half-time the depth picked up as soon as once more.
Maziya went shut to decreasing the hole in the forty eighth minute when the harmful Hamza created area by slicing in from the left however his objective-sure shot was pushed out by Amrinder.
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Instead, it was the house aspect who would rating once more 10 minutes later, with Maziya’s failure to cope with yet one more nook set-piece permitting Amey Ranawade to rating via a wonderful lengthy-vary roller into the underside nook.
Isak Vanlalruatfela made it 5-1 in the 62nd minute, ending from shut vary after Diego Mauricio had overwhelmed the offside entice to sq. the ball to his teammate. Sahil Panwar scored the sixth objective in added time (90+fifth) to cap the resounding win.
The two groups will meet once more on November 7.
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