KOZHIKODE: The man with the Indian Super League’s golden boot struck two times within a space of 15 minutes to lead Odisha Football Club to its greatest moment. The 2 goals in the opening half from Diego Mauricio gave Odisha the Super Cup on Tuesday night. Odisha won the final against Bangalore Football Club 2-1 and thus its first trophy. For Bangalore, it was their third of the season, while it was the first final for Odisha. It was the second final loss for Simon Grayson's team in as many months; they had previously fallen to ATK Mohun Bagan in a shootout in the ISL final.
The outstanding front four of Odisha namely Mauricio, Nandhakumar, Victor Rodriguez, and Jerry Mawihmingthanga, were predicted to give Bangalore 's tough defence fits, and they did.
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, who was the player of the match against Jamshedpur FC in the semifinal, put up a startling performance in goal to prevent the first goal. He mishandled Mauricio's free-kick and agonizedly watched the ball cross the goal line.
Soon after Jerry's superb header from Rodriguez's excellent cross, Mauricio doubled Bangalore 's advantage by putting the ball home. Sunil Chhetri's penalty kick goal late in the game after Sivasakthi Narayanan was fouled by Aniket Jadhav gave Bangalore some optimism as they started the second half with four substitutions. However, this evening belonged to Clifford Miranda and his players from Odisha.
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