Kerala Blasters registered their first win of the season as they beat Odisha FC 2-1 in an Indian Super League (ISL) match on the Tilak Maidan Stadium right here on Sunday.
Alvaro Vazquez (62nd minute) and substitute Prasanth Karuthadathkuni (eighty fifth) scored second-half objectives at hand the yellow shirts their first victory in 11 months.
For Odisha, Nikhil Raj — in for Javi Hernandez — pulled one again in second-half stoppage time.
Attacker Adrian Luna was sensible all through the sport and was instrumental in each Kerala Blasters’ objectives.
Courtesy the consequence, Kerala rise to sixth within the desk with 5 factors from 4 video games. Odisha, in the meantime, stay on third with six factors from three outings.
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Kerala began on the entrance foot, with Sahal Abdul Samad warming Odisha keeper Kamaljit Singh’s gloves early on.
Luna tried his luck from a free kick within the seventh minute, forcing Kamaljit to dive to his left and deny the Uruguayan.
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Odisha bought their first actual likelihood within the twelfth minute when Aridai Cabrera bombed down the left flank and set Javi Hernandez up, however the Spaniard’s effort fizzed over the bar.
Kerala continued to have the higher hand as Thoiba Singh was booked for a problem on Luna. Against the run of play, Javi Hernandez nearly scored with a long-range effort after recognizing Albino Gomes standing nicely outdoors his line.
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For Odisha, full again Hendry Antonay tried an audacious long-ranger which dipped on the prime proper nook however Albino was readily available to parry the ball over the bar.
At halftime, each groups have been stage however the males in yellow bossed proceedings.
The second half began in the identical vein with Kerala ruling the roost. Sahal appeared in nice contact from the off, dancing his well past defenders contained in the field solely to be thwarted, however the ball fell kindly for Luna whose effort went large of the bar.
Luna was within the thick of issues once more simply after the hour mark, and this time his by means of ball discovered Vazquez who timed his run to perfection. The Spaniard ran 30 yards, rounded the keeper and put the ball behind the online.
Vazquez may have doubled his and the group’s tally within the 67th minute after being arrange superbly by Sahal, however his low effort was blocked by Kamaljit.
Kerala suffered a setback when Albino went down after taking the aim kick and needed to be taken off. India U-23 custodian Prabhsukhan Gill changed him.
Midfielder Prasanth’s second to saviour got here 5 minutes to the ultimate whistle when he dinked a superbly weighed Luna ball previous the keeper after a beautiful run off the Uruguayan.
Raj scored a late aim for Odisha however it didn’t matter in the long run.
