Match Report
9 points and 3 places separated them: Odisha 2nd with 10, Pondicherry 5th with 1. Pondicherry had been under-performing their position — 41st on five-round form against 5th in the table. Per game in the league, Odisha were scoring 3.4 and conceding 0.6, Pondicherry 0.6 and 3.6, against a competition average of 1.73 goals per team per game.
A win had eluded Pondicherry for 15 matches. Recent form was uneven: 10/15 points for Odisha, 1/15 for Pondicherry.
Odisha led 4-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 5-0 full-time score.


