Aussems lambastes Mukangula despite victory over Wazito

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FKFPL Aussems lambastes Mukangula despite victory over Wazito

Kiplagat Sang • 08:45 - 10.03.2023

Ingwe managed to score just a goal despite creating numerous chances. .

AFC Leopards head coach Patrick Aussems tore into his captain Eugene Mukangula for missing a guilt edge chance in the 1-0 win over Wazito FC on Thursday. 

Ingwe started the second leg of the league with a victory over their struggling opponents to extend their unbeaten run to 10 games. 

Mukangula’s failure to score from a close chance is one of the instances that irked the former AC Leopards coach, who explained the need to score more goals in each game.

"If you win 1-0 or win 4-0, it is different, but even at 4-0, I should have kicked him [Mukangula] for what he did. That opportunity must be a goal, and it could have been 2-0, and the game is over," he added.

"If you are not capable of killing the game, you never know what could happen from a corner kick, a throw-in, or a long ball. You never know. We need to focus and win."

After the game at the Moi International Sports Center in Kasarani, Ingwe moved up to fifth place.

Aussems however reiterated that three points were paramount as he admitted that the lengthy half time break affected his players’ performance in the opening exchanges of the closing half.

"The most important thing was the points and the victory. We did not start the game very well, and it should have been better at the end of the first half. The second half started at 'midnight', and I do not understand what happened, and halftime was 35 minutes. I do not know what was going on.

"We struggled during the first ten minutes of the second half. But thereafter, it was a little bit better. We had opportunities, but we need to kill games because you never know what could happen in the last minutes," the former Simba SC head coach told the media in his post-match reaction.