Uganda up next for red-hot Kenya

Even with qualification to the 2015 All Africa Games finals already confirmed, Kenya’s coach, David Lung’aho, wants to win all his matches in the qualifiers, including the last against hosts Uganda on Saturday.

Uganda will, on the other hand, be playing for pride, as the 3-1 sets loss to Ethiopia ended their hopes of making it to the finals.

“Uganda is a competitive side and despite the team not being in contention for qualification, we still want to play for a win,” Lung’aho told Saturday Nation Sports.

“Our target from the onset was to qualify as winner of this zone, and so far everything is moving according to plan,” he added.

Uganda started the tournament on a good note with a 3-0 sets (25-14, 25-8 and 25-11) victory over Burundi, before slumping to back-to-back losses of 3-0 and 3-1 sets against Egypt and Ethiopia respectively.

“We were supposed to win our game against Ethiopia, that would have put us in a good position to give our best against Kenya,” Peace Busingye told Saturday Nation Sport after their loss to Ethiopia.

“But now we have nothing left to play for apart from pride, Kenya is a good side and we want to see how we fare against them,” she added.

A win for Kenya today will take them top of the five-team log on 12 points while Egypt will qualify for the finals as the second team with nine points.

On Friday Kenya needed only 35 minutes to whitewash Burundi 3-0 (25-11, 25-13, 25-12) and keep their 100 per cent record in a game Lung’aho described as one “of a low standard”.

“They (Burundi) are a good upcoming side, but with a lot to learn, and we really struggled to get in the mood of playing them,” Lung’aho added.

Kenya started with their second-string side of setter Joy Lusenaka, Triza Atuka, Edith Mukuvulani, Noel Murambi and Lydia Maiyo.