Stars coach Williamson plots to overturn Ethiopia deficit
What you need to know:
- Coach Bobby Williamson will have an uninterrupted week of training with the boys as he seeks to turn tables on the Antelopes following a 2-0 loss in the first leg.
- The Scot has a lot of work to plug holes in the defence as well as ensure his strikers are ruthless in the face of goal.
- In Ethiopia, Stars squandered a late chance to score a vital away goal when Kevin Kimani fluffed a penalty.
The national football team Harambee Stars reported to residential camp on Monday ahead of this weekend’s African Nation Championship return leg qualifier against Ethiopia’s Walia Antelopes.
Coach Bobby Williamson will have an uninterrupted week of training with the boys as he seeks to turn tables on the Antelopes following a 2-0 loss in the first leg. The 53-year-old Scot must work round the clock to ensure Stars overturn the deficit and enter the second of the qualifiers where they will meet the aggregate winner between Burundi and Djibouti.
The Scot has a lot of work to plug holes in the defence as well as ensure his strikers are ruthless in the face of goal.
In Ethiopia, Stars squandered a late chance to score a vital away goal when Kevin Kimani fluffed a penalty.
CONCEDED A PENALTY
In Ethiopia, centre-back Jackson Saleh and left-back Aboud Omar were poor in the same measure they were in Congo in an African Nations qualifier and assistant coach Musa Otieno will have to do some intense drilling on marking.
In Congo, Saleh conceded a penalty that led to the Red Devils’ equaliser, and Otieno was forced to watch in disbelief again, in the technical area as Omar conceded yet another penalty in Bahir Dir.
“We can overturn the result. I have no doubt about that because the opponent was no better than us. The only thing that cost us that match was a series of defensive errors and we shall see how best to improve before we host them for the return match,” Otieno told Daily Nation Sport after the Ethiopian defeat.
