Enyimba International of Aba coach, Fatai Osho, believed the early goal conceded was responsible for their ouster in the CAF Champions League against Al Mereikh of Sudan, Anaedoonline.ng reports.
Enyimba International of Aba coach, Fatai Osho
The People’s Elephants crashed out of the Africa biggest club competition on Wednesday afternoon despite winning 2-1 at home against the Sudanese side.
Saif Terry scored the opener early in the game but two goals from Victor Mbaoma were not enough to ensure that Enyimba progressed in the competition.
The 2-1 win was not enough as they crashed out on 4-2 on aggregate having lost the first leg 3-0.
Osho lamented that his players struggled to contain Terry who netted hat-tirck against them in the first leg.
“It’s quite clear that the early unsettled us, looking at the first leg, their number 9 ( saif Terry) did a lot of work and we worked a lot on how we can curtail him but it’s disappointing but I don’t like blaming the players after defeat, I believe we could have done better.
“Because of the goal we conceded, it affected our style of play and there is no time to play the way we wanted to play.
“We knew that we might win but not qualify and we make it clear to them, we won and we are out.
“We recognised that Terry has power and we worked to silent him, we were able to do that after he scored the goal, unfortunately, god of soccer was not with us today.
“We created chances but their goalkeeper was there and he deserved commendation,” he said.
The two-time African champions are out of the Champions League for this season. This means, no Nigeria club football clubs could make it into the group stage. Plateau United, last season NPFL winners, were knocked out in their first game of the club competition.
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