Super Cup 2019: ATK vs Real Kashmir FC - 5 Talking Points as Manuel Lanzarote hunts down the Snow Leopards 

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ATK are through to the quarter-finals of the Super Cup
ATK are through to the quarter-finals of the Super Cup

#3 Raging Lanzarote hunts down the Snow Leopards

Lanzarote was adjudged hero of the match
Lanzarote was adjudged hero of the match

For the majority of the game, Manuel Lanzarote was cut a frustrated figure constantly provoked by his counterparts as he vehemently pleaded his case to the referee.

The frustration was evident and the ATK captain did not refrain from expressing it with his tantrums and jibes at the officials and his opponents.

However, at the end, when his team needed him the most, Lanzarote did just what is expected of him in games like these with an other-worldly moment of brilliance.

The Spaniard had helped Balwant Singh open the scoring in the first half and pulled the strings from midfield for ATK as you would expect him to as the game progressed.

But the game changer came in the 79th minute when he produced a spectacular side-footed volley to find the back of the net from outside the penalty area after Edu Garcia pinged the ball to him from a corner kick.

That moment of magic was a testament to Lanzarote's undeniable quality that had come under the scanner after a disappointing season at ATK following his big-money move from FC Goa last summer.

Despite all his fiery antics on the pitch this term, there is a hunger to win and turn games on its head in Lanzarote, and no wonder why Steve Coppell and his team-mates let him get away with it all the time.

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Edited by Alan John