Kalinga Super Cup: Goa hope to spoil Bagan's trophy hunt
Bhubaneswar, April 29 (IANS) Mohun Bagan Super Giant and FC Goa, the two top sides in the Indian Super League (ISL) 2024-25 season, will go head-to-head at the Kalinga Stadium in the semifinal of the Kalinga Super Cup here on Wednesday.
Bhubaneswar
: Two games won, two more to go. That's the scenario for
Kalinga Super Cup
semifinalists, barring
Mohun Bagan Super Giants
who needed just one win to join the last four, as they look to book a place in the summit clash with another win on Wednesday.
'All four teams have the same target. And we are all in that moment of the competition where every game is very difficult,' India and
FC Goa
head coach
Manolo Marquez
said at
Kalinga Stadium
on Tuesday.
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Marquez's Goa will be vying it out with ISL Shield and Cup winners
Mohun Bagan
in an afternoon fixture and
Jamshedpur FC
are set to lock horns with
Mumbai City FC
in the game scheduled for the evening.
While the absence of the star foreigners in the ISL champions' squad makes FC Goa the favourites in their last-four clash, their Spanish head coach is not ready to pay heed to the statistics. Bagan's assistant coach Bastab Roy, who is leading in the absence of Jose Molina, admitted that they have a tough job against Goa.
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