In many ways, this was an Indian Super League (ISL) final that promised a lot. Two clearly superior teams right through the season had earned the right to fight for that piece of silverware.
And it was a clash between two sides who profess their own, vastly different, styles of football. It was Sergio Lobera vs Antonio Habas. Both are probably the two most successful coaches ever to have graced the ISL. While Habas had the upperhand in terms of silverware, having won the title twice, Lobera had managed to guide two of his teams to the League Winners Shield (though he never had won the ISL outright till Saturday).