FKF Premier League: City Stars welcomes Sofapaka with a whip.
Nairobi City Stars welcomed Sofapaka with a whip when they hammered them 3-0 in a dramatic Football Kenya Federation Premier League game at Ruaraka Grounds in Nairobi on Monday afternoon.
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Thanks to goals from midfielder Peter Opiyo, Davis Agesa and Salim Abdalla in the first half of the match.
The midfielder found the visitor’s back of the net in the third minute through a penalty which was a result from a handball after a corner kick.
The game went on with City Stars dominance bearing fruits in the 16th minute when Agesa capitalised on Sofapaka’s keeper Aigba Moubarak mistake who gifted him a ball where he lifted it above him into the net. The score was now 2-0 inside the first 20 minutes of the match.
Batoto ba Mungu’s coach Ken Odhiambo tried to salvage the situation by bringing in Alex Imbusia in place of Nixon Omondi, adding numbers to its attack and making Titus Achesa to take control of the back.
In the 28th minute, they got a penalty but skipper Lawrence Juma missed the target and hit the post.
Abdalla scored the third goal humiliating Sofapaka further ten minutes after missing the penalty through the header from Bolton Omwenga’s free kick.
Keeper Moubarak’s ill conduct was punished with a red card after deliberately roughing Nicholas Kipkurui for picking a ball after he was flagged off for offside.
Seven minutes into the second half, City Stars had a chance to go further ahead when they received a penalty courtesy of Isaac Mitima’s tackle on Okumu in the box. Anthony Kimani was given the chance to the take the penalty but his shot was stopped by keeper Kevin Omondi.
City Stars midfielder and former Kariobangi Sharks player Sven Yidah was sent off just as 10 minutes remained to the stoppage time, when he was shown a second red card after receiving the first one in the 60th minute.
Despite being reduced to 10 men same as their counterparts, they fought up to the end denying Sofapaka a chance to score a single goal.
The win for Simba wa Nairobi lifted them to position 9 in the log with 23 points having played 18 matches.
Sofapaka on the other hand are on 11th position after suffering yet another defeat from the previous one against Gor Mahia last week, have also played 18 games.
