Kenya Police FC coach Etienne Ndayiragije refused to press the panic button after his team suffered an obstacle in following their title after a 1-0 football federation (FKF) Loss against Ulinzi Stars on Friday, April 18.

In the match that law enforcement had to win to hold their first place in the 18 team league table were visitors who returned home with maximum points after enterprise Boniface muchiri Found the back of the net in the 47th minute.

police Started the game at a slow pace and found it difficult to break down a resilient DEFENSE The back line. In the 22nd minute, Marvin Nabwire It was booked for a late challenge, and four minutes later, police suffered a blow when the influential midfielder Kenneth Muguna drew for Tyson Otieno After keeping what seemed like a hamstring injury.

Muguna’s exit enabled Ulinzia to seize the midfield control and they raided the police for the opening, but the first half ended 0-0. However, one minute after the break, Muchiri scored what turned out to be the winnerAfter I finished an excellent pass by Muteheli yakeen.

Although ndayiragije made three changes by bringing David Irishura, David Simiyu and Alvin Mang’eni for Clinton Kinanga, Francis direction And Tyson Otienieno, Ulinzi continued to record their seventh victory of the current campaign.

Meanwhile, police suffered their fourth loss, but the result denied them an opportunity to stay in the Summit with second place pantingwith 48 points, facing fighting Nairobi city stars On Sunday, April 19.

Police will not remove title aspirations despite loss

“First of all, I want to wish the stars of Ulinzi. They played well. They had very good discipline, they were good in defense, they were good on the offensive side, they took a chance and scored a goal, they used the case effectively, and I think their coach did his job well,” I change it to say Flurry After the game.

“For our side, it was a difficult luck, we had our chances, but we cannot use them, and that is football, we are in the race, the war continues, and we will continue to fight.”

Asked if the loss puts it under pressure with tusker and champions Gor Breathing behind his back, Ndayiragije said: “I don’t have any pressure, when I took over the team. They were fighting against renunciation, but now they’re at the top of the table, so how did we get there (at the top)?

“It means we know what we are doing, we know what we want to achieve, so we have to stay focused, we have to continue to do our best and I am confident that we will reach our goal at the end of the season.”

Before losing to Ulinzi stars, police had gone for seven games in all races without suffering a loss. The Last Loss of the team came on February 20 when they lost 1-0 against Mathare United In a high flight collision.

They provided a 0-0 draw against AFC leopard In their next match, beat Mofa 1-0 in the 32nd round of the FKF internal cup, defeated Murang’a Seal 3-1, gained retaliation against Posta Rangers After registering a 1-0 win, Drew 0-0 against Stars City, defeated Kapengia United 2-0 in the 16th round of the Cup before loss against ulinzi.

“We do not want to give up our guard and say that we have given up (in the title race), it is unfortunate that we threw points against the stars of Ulinzi, our goal was to win the game, but they were better than us, we will keep the war, we will not wish,“Ofreed I’m enough.

“We’ve lost and that means that other teams that follow for the same goal will also drop points at one stage, so why should we give up? It’s not time to give up now, it’s time to dust up and focus on the remaining matches.

“We want to win every match we play and see what will happen at the end of the season, I repeat that we have lost against Ulinzi because they were much better than us, not because of anything and that’s football, we accept the loss but it has to act as a awakening call for us, we have to win the next game.”

Ndayiragije further admitted that his side was not effective enough to withdraw Muguna after choosing an injury.

“Muguna’s replacement was not tactical. It came out because of a hamstring injury, really slowed our game, we also lost Bajaber MuhammadWe were not good enough in that area, but I hope they will all be able to return before our next match, ” Explained I’m enough.

Ulinzi Stars Dunstan Nyaudo coach told Flashscore after the game: “I thank my players for the spiritual war, they gave everything and I’m happy with what I saw from them.

“We’ve done a lot of work in our finishing department in recent weeks, it’s the biggest emphasis on our team so far, because we’ve had problems here.

“Even against the police, we created more than four chances, but we just managed to use one, we had a penalty that was not given and this is also a chance, but we are working in our wonderful strength because it has been our main expulsion.”

After the victory, Ulinzi Stars remained the 12th with 31 points out of 27 games. They have achieved seven wins, 10 draws and suffered 10 losses.

AFC leopards fighting because of injuries

Meanwhile, AFC coach Freddars Fred Ambani attributed their latest loss to the main players lost in injuries. The poor season of Ingwe continued as they suffered a 1-0 losses Against Post Rangers.

The loss was seventh for Ingwwe, who are destined to end another season without silver.

“I can’t be happy with this kind of outcome. I can’t be happy when we lose. We have a lot of injuries that are currently touching the team. Hope things will improve when players come back from injuries,” Told Ambani Flashscore.

“We had good chances, we had a lot of chance and wasted them, our rivals had a chance and used it, football is about using your chances, we got tons and never used them, we will have to go down and correct mistakes from this game before our next match.”

AFC leopards are now seventh with 37 points out of 26 games while the victory enabled Rangers to move out of the removal area, while they landed at 14 with 28 points from 27 exits.