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Ingwe fans did not take kindly their team's loss to KCB on Friday but their coach is not pressing the panic button
AFC Leopards coach Tom Juma is unfazed by pressure after losing his first game at the club following a 1-0 defeat to KCB on Friday.
Leopards were sunk by a Derrick Otanga header in the 78th minute of the match played at the Kasarani Stadium, leaving the club without a win in each of their last two fixtures.
Speaking after the match in front of a section of enraged fans, Juma suggested he has faced pressure all his life and the club will bounce back quickly.
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“We lost the game today which is not good at all,” Juma said, adding: “We did not play how we wanted. This is football, no one can be happy but that is the way it is.
“I have been under pressure all my life. All we just need to do is keep working. We lost the game and there is nothing we can do about it. Teams lose games.
“We are not the first ones to lose a match. That is football. It is painful but that is the truth.”
Leopards created a couple of realistic chances to go ahead especially in the first half but did not take them, before they were given a sucker punch by Otanga’s goal.
“Football is a game of chances. If you get your chances, you have to utilise them. If you do not take your chances and the opponents utilise theirs, then you have problems like these," he added.
“We needed one or two goals to change the outcome of the game but it did not happen. It is a game of chances.”
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Leopards' day went from bad to worse as Musa Oundo was dismissed for a second bookable offence when the club were trailing 1-0.
“I did not see that situation well. I saw the second yellow being produced and then the red card given. We will review it and see. The ball was live. The red card was not good at all for us, especially when we were trailing and trying to equalise.”
Leopards will be hoping to make amends in their next match of the season against Muhoroni Youth.
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