{"id":1849,"date":"2013-02-15T03:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T03:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2013-02-15T03:36:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T03:36:45","slug":"anse-reunion-in-low-spirits-ahead-of-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/anse-reunion-in-low-spirits-ahead-of-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Anse ReUnion in low spirits ahead of game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/anse.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">La Digue-based Anse Reunion fly to Nairobi, Kenya, today for Saturday\u2019s preliminary round away leg match at the Nyayo National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Speaking to Sports Nation, manager Barb\u00e9 said the absence of Malagasy Hassan Ali will be felt in midfield.<br \/>\nAli, who joined Anse Reunion from La Digue\u2019s other top flight team La Passe last year, has moved to Barclays league division one champions St Michel in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a good player and his absence will be felt in midfield. I, personally, don\u2019t like the way he left the team and how the transfer procedures went about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow St Michel are a more complete team than us and it\u2019s a shame that they (St Michel) just keep poaching our players,\u201d said manager Barb\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Ali is the second foreign player to join St Michel from Anse Reunion in two years. Last year, Ali\u2019s Malagasy colleague, striker Jean Del\u2019Or Tsaralaza moved to the Anse Aux Pins-based team and played an important role in helping them retain the league title.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Juel Ah-kong said although his players\u2019 fitness is sub-standard, they have the necessary drive to see them through competitive matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always difficult to go right into a competition of this calibre after quite a long lay-off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturday\u2019s game against Gor Mahia will be our first official match of the year and it will be a difficult task, especially as we are playing away,\u201d said coach<\/p>\n<p>Ah-kong whose team earned their ticket for the Caf Confederation Cup with a 3-2 win over C\u00f4te d\u2019Or in last year\u2019s Land Marine Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that despite all the odds that are against them, they are determined to get a positive result from the away match.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is important that my players stay focused for the whole 90 minutes and even more depending on the injury time to be played if there is any.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, we will not take an all-out attack approach. We will instead rely on counter-attacks as we do not know much about Gor Mahia. It will be important for us to get an away goal,\u201d added coach Ah-kong.<\/p>\n<p>Like manager Barb\u00e9, coach Ah-kong is unhappy with Ali\u2019s move to St Michel but added: \u201cit\u2019s his choice and we have to respect it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAli is no more with Anse Reunion and we have to look for another solution. His presence would have been a plus for us, but it\u2019s not the case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy of Nation SC<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/anse-reunion-in-low-spirits-ahead-of-game\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Digue-based Anse Reunion fly to Nairobi, Kenya, today for Saturday\u2019s preliminary round away leg match at the Nyayo National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}