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Bosso conceding too many goals
04 May 2013 at 05:33hrs | Views
FORMER Premiership champions Highlanders FC defensive problems continued on Workers Day when they failed to maintain a clean sheet for the fifth game.
It is the two goals that Highlanders conceded that are worrying their technical team who have a vivid memory of how goals matter at the end of the season having lost the championship to Dynamos last year due to inferior goal difference.
Highlanders' assistant coach Bekithemba Ndlovu said as much as they are happy that they are scoring, they are equally concerned with the rate at which they are conceding goals.
Last season Highlanders had 15 goals scored against them from their 30 games and now they have conceded six goals from five consecutive matches.
The last time Bosso kept a clean sheet was when they beat Harare City 2-0 at Barbourfields last month.
Highlanders have gone on to concede in every game that they have played after that beating Triangle 2-1, losing to Motor Action 1-0, the one-all draw with Dynamos and the 3-1 victory against Black Rhinos.
Their defence has been sloppy of late and it will not be proper for Diya alone to take the blame as in encounters against Dynamos and Black Rhinos, Bosso failed to deal with crosses off a corner kicks resulting in goals.
Ndlovu is confident that they would maintain a clean sheet when they play host to tricky Buffaloes at Emagumeni on Sunday.
Buffaloes, third on the log with 15 points will come to Bulawayo with their heads high following their 4-1 demolition of Black Rhinos in Mutare yesterday.
The army side is just a point behind Bosso who are tied on 16 points with FC Platinum.
Fixtures
Tomorrow: Caps United v Shabanie Mine (Gwanzura), Harare City v Chicken Inn (Rufaro), FC Platinum v Tripple B (Mandava)
Sunday: Black Rhinos v How Mine (Gwanzura), Highlanders v Buffaloes (Barbourfields), Hwange v Triangle (Colliery), Monomotapa v Dynamos (Rufaro), Motor Action v Black Mambas (Motor Action Sports Club)
It is the two goals that Highlanders conceded that are worrying their technical team who have a vivid memory of how goals matter at the end of the season having lost the championship to Dynamos last year due to inferior goal difference.
Highlanders' assistant coach Bekithemba Ndlovu said as much as they are happy that they are scoring, they are equally concerned with the rate at which they are conceding goals.
Last season Highlanders had 15 goals scored against them from their 30 games and now they have conceded six goals from five consecutive matches.
The last time Bosso kept a clean sheet was when they beat Harare City 2-0 at Barbourfields last month.
Highlanders have gone on to concede in every game that they have played after that beating Triangle 2-1, losing to Motor Action 1-0, the one-all draw with Dynamos and the 3-1 victory against Black Rhinos.
Their defence has been sloppy of late and it will not be proper for Diya alone to take the blame as in encounters against Dynamos and Black Rhinos, Bosso failed to deal with crosses off a corner kicks resulting in goals.
Ndlovu is confident that they would maintain a clean sheet when they play host to tricky Buffaloes at Emagumeni on Sunday.
Buffaloes, third on the log with 15 points will come to Bulawayo with their heads high following their 4-1 demolition of Black Rhinos in Mutare yesterday.
The army side is just a point behind Bosso who are tied on 16 points with FC Platinum.
Fixtures
Tomorrow: Caps United v Shabanie Mine (Gwanzura), Harare City v Chicken Inn (Rufaro), FC Platinum v Tripple B (Mandava)
Sunday: Black Rhinos v How Mine (Gwanzura), Highlanders v Buffaloes (Barbourfields), Hwange v Triangle (Colliery), Monomotapa v Dynamos (Rufaro), Motor Action v Black Mambas (Motor Action Sports Club)
Source - chronicle
