Sunday evening presented contrasting fortunes for Kenyan internationals Erick ‘Marcelo’ Ouma, who plies his trade in Sweden, and combative centre back Joash Onyango who is currently stationed at Tanzanian heavyweights Simba SC.While Marcelo managed to pick up a precious win and a clean sheet in his league match outing, his former Gor Mahia teammate Joash succumbed to defeat against Orlando Pirates who ended up knocking them out of the continental CAF Confederation Cup tournament at the quarter-final stage. Here is a wrap of how the action was played.AIK 1-0 DjurgardenMarcelo’s AIK managed to pick up back to back wins for the first time in the 2022 Swedish season as they recorded a narrow 1-0 victory in their league match against Djurgarden played at the Friends Arena.In that Stockholm Derby, Marcelo would have come up against his countrymate Frank Odhiambo who was recently signed by Djurgarden but the former Gor Mahia youngster was not part of the match day squad. There was no space for former Tusker FC striker Henry Meja in AIK’s squad either while Collins Sichenje is yet to link up with the team too. .Nicolas Steffanelli’s goal 45th minute strike ended up making all the difference for AIK who kept another clean sheet to go with their victory that pushed them upto fourth on the log table on 9 points.
Orlando Pirates 1 (4)-(3) 0 Simba SCJoash Onyango was unable to help his side advance to the semifinals of the CAF Confederation Cup as an impressive Orlando Pirates knocked them out in the quarterfinal stage after needing post-match penalties to win the tie.Carrying a first leg 1-0 advantage going to South Africa, Simba allowed Orlando Pirates to force the game to penalty shootout after Kwame Peprah’s strike on the hour game put the game level 1-1 on aggregate.Safari yetu kwenye #TotalEnergiesCAFCC imefika mwisho. #NguvuMoja pic.twitter.com/uWPvigBvhi— Simba Sports Club (@SimbaSCTanzania) April 24, 2022 In the shootouts, Buccaneers Ghanaian goalkeeper Richard Ofori saved one penalty before converting the winning kick to send his side through at the expense of the Tanzanians.