Lavatsa in action as Kenya loose to Egypt
Courtesy of futaa.com
The Kenya U20 national team crashed out of contention for the African Youth Championships courtesy of a 0 -3 loss in the second leg, second round at the Nyayo National Stadium on Saturday 11 August.
Bright start
Kenya started brightly, with Gor Mahia striker Edwin Lavatsa going close on four minutes after stumbling on a loose ball when Enock Agwanda collided with Egypt keeper Mossad Awad but his shot narrowly missed the target.
The Egyptians launched an attack of their own but Joel Bataro punched Saleh Gomaa’s attempt clear and Kenya surged forward after fine work from Danson Kago but his final shot at goal was well blocked by Yasser Ahmed.
Sayed opener
On 15 minutes Egypt went ahead through Ahmed el Sayed who calmly lobbed the ball over Joel Bataro after the Kenya captain had badly misjudged a cross from Gomaa.
Kenya, however, rolled up their sleeves and went close on 19 minutes, Lavatsa missing narrowly with a header from Eric Omondi’s cross before Kenya’s penalty claims were waved off after Kago was felled in the box by Osama Ibrahim.
Penalty shouts
Another penalty shout on 42 minutes after Patilla Omoto’s header was handled by Mahmoud el Metwally was ignored by the referee much to the Kenyans chagrin as they went to the break behind.
Kenya survived another scare on 47 minutes when Omar Bassam’s goal was ruled out for offside but the visitors doubled their lead on the hour mark through an Eric Omondi own goal when he tried to stop a Gomaa cross but ended up lifting the ball above Bataro.
Gomaa goal
The impressive Gomaa then registered his name on the score sheet with a third from 30 yards with a free kick well drilled to the bottom left corner to effectively end the Kenyans’ hopes.
Ironically, a cross section of the Kenyan fans at the stadium exuberantly cheered the North Africans towards the end of the game.
Poor Kenya. Why give the fans hope only to underachieve. You can now give the excuse that you were denied the usage of Nyayo stadium. At least so far GM has been over-achieving so no stress for me. Utavuna ulichopanda so the saying goes.
Did Kenya ‘loose’ or ‘lose’ to Egypt? Over to you administrator: usitufedheheshe tafadhali.
i hope this lays to rest that kenyan coaches are basically ‘conmen’. i do not thnk these guys really know what the problem in kenyan soccer is about. we all agree that we have the players so what is the problem? TECHNIC. thats the answer.it was really disappointing when the coach made comments about how kenya was ready after the friendly match with afc leopards. this is a good example of a coach who has know idea of the arena he is playing in.let foreign coaches take these jobs until a time a local coaches start to understand what coaching is all about. and this goes to ppl like nandwa, sammy omollo, ogolla, kimanzi etc. at least ghost mulei gave up and is now a commentator. these guys at best shud be appointed to handle school teams.why would koops(a tourist) and the croat(GOR) change what seemed impossible to local coaches? rwanda, uganda, tz all realised that the technical part better go foreign something west africa realised in the 80’s.
We do not have good coaches as all are not qualified to even handle under 23 nor under 20. we need to clean up our football from the top. I have 1001 questions, can Nyamweya and his federation achieve anything for national team? My big answer is NO!!!! NO!!!!.
We have people like Nyamweya, Aduda and Alila who have no idea in the Kenyan football. May Almighty God save us from corrupt football officials from the top to downwards to clubs. Kenyans are crying for a change in our football approach. This is a clarion call to our football leaders that we have to change.
We dont have structured youth development. All we have is youth teams selected via tryouts. This is a recipe for disaster. And we are not humble enough to study other countries and learn from them.
Thanks INGWE My pride.less talk more actions.You med Thika curse soccer.so,bring on the next client.
@6: don’t u thnk u sud pay rent omera? anyway we wait for the MATCH, i wonder of the guy who was sitting on the leopards account. i meant NO idea… hapo juu.
I personally attended this match and performance was below average. In fact I saw Lavatsa limping throughout the match but the coach could not even notice, leave a lot replacing. Attendance was approximately 1500 people on a higher side. In summary we lost because of poor coaching, poor goal keeping and lack of strategy. There was also the issue of poor officiating but that should not be an excuse since we were playing at home. Unless we have a foreign coach, clear structures (eg Under 17, 20, 23,etc which are well established)and good management our national team will never go anywhere