ISL 2024-25: Mohun Bagan by the defense of the title of Indian Super League while it welcomes Odisha FC

On Sunday, Mohun Bagan Super Giant hosts the Odisha FC match in an Indian Super League (ISL) 2024-25 match at the Salt Lake Stadium stadium, seeking to achieve the victory that would bring the title of Shield League for the second time.

The navies have already completed certain records on 49 points from 21 outings – which is the highest accumulation of any team in the history of the ISL – and are now ready to create history by becoming The first club of the tournament to secure successive league titles.

Mohun Bagan currently has a seven points advance on the second FC Goa (42 points in 21 games) and needs 52 points to win the title.

Mohun Bagan fans already feel the moment of coronation of their favorite team and will pack the giant stadium of Salt Lake to celebrate it. | Photo credit: FSDL / ISL media

Despite three additional games to play, Mohun Bagan will try to secure the crown by beating Odisha FC, in front of a crowd of capacity.

Mohun Bagan fans already feel the moment of coronation of their favorite team and will pack the giant stadium of Salt Lake to celebrate it. On the eve of the match, more than 59,000 tickets were sold and others are supposed to be wrapped in the morning of the match.

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The confidence of the navy is based on the series of success that the team has succeeded by remaining undefeated in its last 10 houses.

He also managed clean leaves in the last five games (between 13 clean leaves in the tournament), making it one of the most resolved teams on the tournament.

Mohun Bagan is the only side that has maintained the appropriate balance in its performance setting up a resolved defense, which has only conceded 14 goals so far, and an effective attack producing the 42 highest goals.

Jamie Maclaren was the highest scorer of Mohun Bagan Super Giant this season, with 10 goals so far. | Photo credit: FSDL / ISL media

“The most important thing is a difficult work through which you get the necessary balance. At the beginning (of the tournament), we did not have this balance but we found it later. And this balance and hard work have helped us to be where we are right now, “said Mohun Bagan’s head coach Jose Molina.

“In football, you cannot separate defense and attacks. You must have everything good to be a good team. And that’s what we’re trying to do from the start. »»

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For Odisha FC, which is currently placed seventh in the league painting with 29 points of 21 matches, this is a matter of survival.

With only three remaining games, the task has become difficult for the behemoths, who need points in all their outings to eliminate a place in the upper half of the league table and stay in the running for the ISL Cup, which is the Next stage of the tournament.

Sergio Lobera, who won the Shield ISL with two teams, Mumbai City and FC Goa, will now seek to turn the fortune of the Odisha FC in the Indian Super League. | Photo credit: FSDL / ISL media

Odisha has achieved an excellent 41 goals’ attack record so far, which is the best in Mohun Bagan. But his attacker force was largely offset by an unstable defense which left 34 goals to spoil the situation.

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“We play practically three finals and in doing so, we need to get the opportunity to finish in the top six. We are going to go to try to win, because it is very important for us to get a positive result, “said the head coach of the Odisha FC, Sergio Lobera.

“We will play for us. And if that means that the opposing team cannot celebrate something, we have to focus on our target, “the visit coach took up the challenge to the local team.

The two teams clashed 12 times in the competition, Mohun Bagan winning five times and FC Odisha emerging victorious once. Six games produced prints, including the reverse light on November 10, 2024, which ended 1-1.