Gambia: Scorpions Get Defeat in First Chan Encounter

Dakar, Senegal — Three schoolboy errors against a hungry Lion condemned a stingless Scorpion to a 3-1 defeat in the first leg of the CHAN qualifiers at the Stade Demba Diop in Dakar on Saturday.

Expectations were high for a local based Gambia selection that spent a whole week camped at high performance training centres in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. This defeat in the Rwanda 2016 qualifier came exactly a week after the senior team secured a solid draw with the Bafana Bafana in the Nations Cup qualifiers in South Africa.

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