ISL 2023: ATK Mohun Bagan won the ISL title, beating Sunil Chhetri’s Bangalore team 4-3 in the penalty shoot-out

ATK Mohun Bagan has won the Indian Super League (ISL 2023) title. They defeated Sunil Chhetri’s team Bengaluru FC 4–3 in the penalty shootout in the final. Mohun Bagan has won the ISL title for the first time. In the match played in Goa on Saturday, the score was tied at 2-2 till full time. What followed was a thrilling penalty shoot-out where Mohun Bagan withstood the pressure and won.

Bangalore had to face injury at the beginning of the match, when the team’s star player Shivasakthi Narayanan got injured. After this Sunil Chhetri was sent on the field as a substitute for Shivashakti in the first few minutes. Mohun Bagan were awarded a penalty in the 13th minute for a mistake by Roy Krishna. On this, Mohun Bagan’s Dimitri Petratos scored a goal to put his team ahead 1-0.

After this, Bengaluru were awarded a penalty on Mohun Bagan’s foul in the injury time of the first half. Sunil Chhetri scored a goal to make the score 1-1. In the 78th minute, Roy Krishna scored a goal to put Bangalore ahead 2-1. However, the team could not maintain this lead for long and Mohun Bagan got a penalty in the 85th minute for another foul by Bengaluru. Even then, Petratos scored a goal to make the score 2-2.

This was the score till full time. Both the teams could not score any goal even in 30 minutes of extra time and the match reached the penalty shootout. Petratos, Liston Colaco, Qian Nasiri and Manvir Singh scored for Mohun Bagan. At the same time, Alan Costa, Roy Krishna and Sunil Chhetri were the only ones to score from Bengaluru. Bruno Ramirez and Pablo Perez’s strokes were saved by the Mohun Bagan goalkeeper.

In this way the team of Mohun Bagan became the champion. This was the ninth edition of ISL and till date there have been six champion teams. Atlético de Kolkata has won this title the most three times. At the same time, Chennaiyin FC has won this title twice. Mohun Bagan, Mumbai City FC, Bengaluru FC and Hyderabad FC have won the title once each. The first season in 2014 was won by Atlético de Kolkata. At the same time, Hyderabad FC was the winner of the last season.