Last-minute goals: When seconds shape emotions and rewrite fates

New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): Goal dont jut win matche, they win heart and ometime, they break them too. Lat-minute goal are not jut ordinary trike, they come with omething extra. When the clock i ticking down, it take more than jut kill, it demand nerve of teel and perfect compoure. And when that deciive moment arrive, it wing the pendulum of fate, turning jubilation into heartbreak, and depair into euphoria.
When it take place in a final or a knockout game, the take multiply, and o doe the emotional reaction.
Over the lat decade, the Indian Super League (ISL) ha witneed many lat-gap goal and ome nail-biting finihe, often leaving one et of fan in ectay and the other in tear.
With that aid, let read on and relive the mot heartbreaking lat-minute goal in league hitory, which have been uniquely cruel and olely immortal.
Super-ub Mohammed Rafique 95th-minute winner ealed the deal for ATK FC, tunning Kerala Blater FC to emerge a the ISL Cup winner. The dramatic concluion to the inaugural eaon et the tone for year to come, a per the official webite of the Indian Super League.
The match hung in a tene ituation where potential extra time wa on the card. In the dying econd of the game, Rafique headed home the winner, and left a packed DY Patil Stadium in a tate of divere emotion.
Back-to-back heartbreak in the ISL Cup final, and thi time it wa for FC Goa, a roaring comeback from Chennaiyin FC, who overturned the reult thank to Steven Mendoza 91t-minute trike.
The Fatorda witneed a ee-aw battle between two heavyweight, with the Gaur leading 2-1 till the 90th minute. Laxmikant Kattimani own goal equalized the coreline a minute later, and it wa Marina Machan goalcoring enation, who howcaed hi predatory intinct and lotted the ball pat the FC Goa goalkeeper. It wa jut pure agony for the hot, who were a heartbeat away from cripting hitory.
Another ISL Cup final, another FC Goa heartbreak. It wa none other than Bengaluru FC Rahul Bheke who roe highet to find the back of the net with hi harp header from a precie corner kick.
The game wa a tactical battle between two Spaniard, Carle Cuadrat and Sergio Lobera. Both team had their chance throughout the match, but reolute defending prevented them from breaking the deadlock. Bheke 117th-minute winner not only helped the Blue enjoy their firt-ever ISL Cup triumph but alo left the FC Goa upporter dimmed into devatating ilence.
Bipin Singh, the magic man for Mumbai City FC, cored one of the mot memorable goal in ISL hitory. A tene battle between two heavyweight team wa on level term a both team were puhing for the winner in the mega final.
With the tenion palpable, it wa Bipin who capitalized on MBSG defenive lape, found the back of the net in in the 90th minute in the mot demanding ituation, and wrote hi name in the Ilander folklore. While the roar of the crowd wa abent given the pandemic ituation, Bipin iconic celebration by taking off the jerey will continue to live long among the Mumbai City FC faithful while it haunt the Mariner.
Sunil Chhetri, even in hi 40, hone bright yet again a he led Bengaluru FC to a emi-final victory over FC Goa in ISL 2024-25.
It wa the econd leg of the emi-final at Fatorda, where the aggregate coreline wa tied at 2-2, with the Gaur, banking on their home trength, on top after wiping off a 2-0 firt-leg deficit. With the tie heading for extra-time, the Blue icon tepped up with a flying header in the 92nd minute that broke FC Goa heart once more and propelled Bengaluru FC to their fourth Cup final in club hitory. (ANI)