Philip Onyango
9 May 2008
Nairobi — Bandari coach Twahir Muhidin, also the Harambee Stars deputy coach, will be under a lot of pressure when he leads Bandari against on-form Mathare United at the Mombasa Municipal Stadium on Saturday.
Twahir, who has been seconded to help coach Wycliffe Anyangu change the teams fortunes after a poor start to the season, has already won one match against Red Berrets in Mombasa and lost the other against Sher Karuturi in Naivasha, a match whose results he has blamed on poor officiating and the oversized nature of the Sher grounds which he says is biggest in the country and exhausted the players very fast.
According to Muhidin, Bandari is a reputable club that should be in a reputable position by virtue of its manpower and support from the management and should not therefore be fighting against relegation.
Muhidin, who has been with the team for two weeks, says his first main task when he joined the team was to ensure the players were physically fit , after which he worked on sharpening the striking force which he says was blunt.
A good match
He is however confident he has almost achieved the two and has promised the fans a good match.
"There is no short cut about it. Bandari has just to start winning matches otherwise things will be very bad at the end of the season", he said in an interview on Thursday.
The coach is however recommending that the striking force and the midfield be beefed up before the kick off of the second leg saying those two positions had weaknesses.
Against Red Berrets, Bandari, though physically fit, played without purpose and were lucky to have escaped with a narrow win after playing under pressure the whole of the second half.
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