AFC Leopards tactician Patrick Aussems believes that his team was the better side in their encounter with defending champions Tusker FC at Kasrani Stadium on Sunday.Ingwe suffered their first loss of the 2022/23 FKFPL season in the hands of the Brewers, losing by a solitary goal courtesy of Eric Mmata’s strike from the spot in the second half.Although they had an opportunity to pick a point from the game also, it was not to be as Nigerian striker Ojo Olaniyi blasted a penalty kick over the bar, towards Roysambu, in the latter stages of the match that was marred by a scuffle that saw the referee Hosea Omondi need medical assistance on the field.In any country , from U8 when a referee is kicked by a player it’s a life suspension !! Here in KPL on a professional top match , with fans the referee is kicked and beaten by players , needs 6-7′ of medical treatment to recover and the match continues 11×11 … Weird no ?? pic.twitter.com/SRHIaHE6Ez— Patrick Aussems (@PatrickAussems) December 4, 2022 Responding to whether his team lived up to the expectations against the defending champions, the Belgian tactician posited that a stranger watching the match would think that Ingwe were the reigning champions and not the other way.##NAJAVA_MECA_6867616##”Have you seen two different teams in the game despite us missing 14 players? If someone came to watch the game and you asked him who was the champion the past two years, do you think he would pick Tusker or AFC? I am very satisfied with what we did, with what we have,” he posed.Further, the coach took a dig at Tusker’s style of play more so in the last 15 minutes of the match where, according to him, Robert Matano’s charges were just sending the ball forward and rushing for it.Clinical Tusker whip AFC Leopards to maintain perfect league start”I would like to congratulate our young players because in the last 15 minutes it was just ‘kick and rush’ from the other team but we played well to hold them, but they were just like that anyway. We gave them problems. They had just one opportunity,” he added.Tusker lead the standings with a perfect record and boast of nine points from three matches while Ingwe are tenth with just three points they picked in the opening match win over Ulinzi Stars.
