Simba vow to avenge defeat

Visiting Simba Sports Club team has vowed to avenge first leg defeat inflicted to them by Kagera Sugar in December last year, as they face the Bukoba-based team in return leg match of the Mainland premiership at the Kambarage Stadium tomorrow.

 

The team’s Serbian coach Goran Kopunovic says he would take all precautions to steer his side into a valuable away victory in Shinyanga.

 

The match is vital to Simba in its mission to step up mission of winning the Mainland title though the task is a tall order.

 

 

Wobbly Simba have never been consistent in wining matches and their longest streak for the ongoing season is to post three back-to-back victories last month.

 

Kopunovic plans to have his squad win all remaining six matches then weigh the possibility of snatching the Mainland title before the season comes to an end on May 9.

 

"The coach says tomorrow’s match against Kagera Sugar is vital and hard to win but we have to accomplish the mission in a bid to step up our title winning strategies or at least finish at a respectable position in the final standings”, says the team’s spokesman Hadji Manara.

 

Simba will be playing at the Kambarage Stadium with nostalgic or rather a poor backdrop of their 1-0 defeat at the hands of hosts Stand United on February 22.

Hosts Kagera sugar will be playing with full confidence after recent midweek fixture victory over ‘brothers’ Mtibwa Sugar at the same venue. 

 

The Bukoba-based side which shifted their base to Mwanza and then to shinyanga have lost only once in their four appearances on the newly adopted venue.

 

Simba have to close up a massive eight-point gap created by pace makers who also happens to be closest archrivals Yanga.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN