AFC Cup: Odisha FC Mallet Maziya 6-1; Keep Knockout Stage Expectations Alive
Super Cup champions Odisha FC resuscitated their AFC Cup crusade with a 6-1 destruction of Maziya Sports and Diversion of Maldives at the Kalinga Arena on Tuesday. After routs against Mohun Bagan Very Goliath and Bashundhara Rulers, Odisha at long last got focuses on the board in Gathering D, holding their expectations of movement to the knockout stage alive. It was a whirlwind of activity from the initial whistle with Odisha requiring just three minutes to start to lead the pack when Lalthathanga Khawlhring scored on the half-turn, after Mourtada Fall had won a header from a corner kick.
Maziya, be that as it may, got their hosts off guard the thirteenth moment from their very own corner kick. Branimir Jocic met Hamza Mohamed’s conveyance with a circling header that surprised Odisha overseer Amrinder Singh.
The equality endured only two minutes as Odisha recaptured the lead with Carlos Delgado creating a mind boggling header to direct the ball past Hussain Shareef from an Ahmed Jahouh free-kick.
The Kalinga Champions proceeded to expand their lead in the nineteenth moment when Delgado turned supplier, setting up Fall for another header.
After a short of breath start to finish start to the game, the match got through a more settled period and it was shortly after half-time the power got by and by.
Maziya went near decreasing the hole in the 48th moment when the perilous Hamza made space by cutting in from the left yet his objective bound shot was moved out by Amrinder.
All things considered, it was the home side who might score again 10 minutes after the fact, with Maziya’s inability to manage one more corner set-piece permitting Amey Ranawade to score through a radiant long reach curling iron into the base corner.
Isak Vanlalruatfela made it 5-1 in the 62nd moment, completing from short proximity after Diego Mauricio had beaten the offside snare to square the ball to his partner. Sahil Panwar scored the 6th objective in added time (90+5th) to cover the resonating success.
The two groups will meet in the future on November 7.
