panaji was it 40 yards 42 or maybe 45 the buzz around the tilak maidan in vasco was all about brandon gomess spectacular strike as sporting clube de goa edged out dempo sports club 87 via sudden death tiebreaker to storm into the final of the awes cup on tuesdayafter a barren first session dempo took the lead through a good strike from jessel carneiro in the 54th minute never mind the awkward bounce that fooled goalkeeper melroy fernandes but just three minutes later brandon got sporting clube on level terms with a goal that was being discussed long after the referee had blown the final whistlenever mind the distance it took a spectacular effort when cajetan fernandes floated a freekick inside the goalmouth and dempo defender cleared it everyone thought the ball had travelled to safety it was quite some distance away certainly 40 yards if not more and brandon hit it so ferociously that the moment it left his boot it had goal written all over itdempo goalkeeper agnelo gomes tried his best with a diving effort but couldnt reach the top corner those who witnessed the goal couldnt help but give the sporting fullback a standing ovationthe match though was far from over there was more than half an hour left to be played and on the evidence of the endtoend action could have gone either way sporting clube with five changes to the team that lost 12 against ongc seemed handicapped with the absence of their regular defensive pairing of clive miranda and schubert dcosta both injured the talented glan martins was nursing an injured lip so it was left for the experienced trio of cajetan marcus mascarenhas and captain victorino fernandes to see them throughdempo had problems of their own with latesh mandrekar suspended coach samir naik was forced into changes and beevan dmello didnt seem to have recovered fully from his strain he missed twice from close range before being substituted but a touch from him that saw the ball being lifted over clemente joseph was as good as anything else youve seen on the fieldbeevan was not the only one to go close joaquim abranches shot straight into the waiting hands of the goalkeeper suraj hadkonkar did the same while jessel missed as wellfor sporting assumption soares saw his late attempt hit the crossbar while ganesh thakur did some excellent work to find his way inside the danger zone only to finish with a lame effortin the tiebreaker that followed sporting missed the first penalty taken by alesh sawant but converted the next seven through cajetan marcus ganesh clive brandon assumption and victorinodempo had the advantage in the tiebreaker when velito dcruz and suraj hadkonkar converted the first two penalties naveen mendes missed the third and while jessel chatur naik abranches and olan chandran all converted mario mascarenhas missed the eighth penalty for dempo