Kofi Owusu Aduonum
6 January 2009
Sporting Mirren's Lebanese trainer, Fadi Omari matched his words with action to secure his first three points in the Glo Premier league when he guided his side to stun Asante Kotoko at the Ohene Djan Stadium last Sunday.
Going into the game, Asante Kotoko was on top of the league table with Mirren glued at the bottom. Many were those who gave the bottom-placed team any dog's chance to send the Porcupine Warriors home empty handed.
But the underdogs proved the pundits wrong and fought from a goal down to beat the current league leaders 2-1in the Glo premier league week five fixture.
In a post-match interview with coach Fadi, he noted that he capitalized on Kotoko's inability to recover from their raids. "Kotoko failed on many occasions to recover after surging forward and I told my boys to be more aggressive after the first 24minutes, and that I must say accounted for the victory," said coach Fadi.
He expressed great excitement, having chalked his first victory but blamed his sides long streak of losses to lousy officiating, saying "We have scored on many occasions in all the games that we lost, but the referees turned blind eye to them."
Having grabbed his first victory against no mean side than Kotoko, coach Fadi is cramming with optimism to replicate the same feat when he treks to the Harbour City, Tema, to play as guests of Tema Youth on Sunday.Kotoko managed a late controversial equalizer by striker Kwadjo Asamoah, which was disallowed by referees Seidu Bomison and A.S.Malik, which stirred their fans to resort to throwing of bagged and bottled water onto the field, which prevented play for close to 26 minutes.
It took the intervention of FA boss Messrs Kwesi Nyantakyi, and Kotoko officials -Jerry Asare and Kwame Baah-Nuako to calm the irate fans for play to continue. The defeat, the first for Kotoko's expatriate coach -Morris Cooreman, flared him up and made him refuse to grant newsmen any interview after the game.
Kotoko return to their Baba Yara base to host deflated Chelsea, while All Blacks travel to Accra to play a rejuvenated Hearts of Oak at the Ohene Djan Stadium.
Eleven Wise will stay at Essipong to play Liberty Professionals, while in form RTU host All Stars at Tamale.
Ashgold will travel to Berekum to face Arsenals, with third-placed Lions hosting bottom-placed Hasaacas at Kpando. King Faisal travels to Abrankesse to play Kessben.
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