Odisha FC fell short but did well to stay in the race for the playoffs until the very end...
There are clubs that decide to sack their manager four matches into a season. Then there are clubs that have trusted their head coaches to captain the ship despite them having found no success in terms of winning trophies and getting into the top four. Odisha FC would fall into the second category.
Josep Gombau entered his second year in Indian football with a new entity named Odisha FC. It was an extension of his project at Delhi Dynamos, with the same look and feel but the base had changed.