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Galaxy left to rue early goal

Jwaneng Galaxy (in white) suffered a 1-0 defeat to Namibian side, African Stars in the first leg of the CAF Champions League preliminary round on Saturday  PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG
Jwaneng Galaxy (in white) suffered a 1-0 defeat to Namibian side, African Stars in the first leg of the CAF Champions League preliminary round on Saturday PIC: PHATSIMO KAPENG

Jwaneng Galaxy's head coach, Morena Ramoreboli, feels his side was bound to lose against African Stars after conceding early in the first leg of the CAF Champions League preliminary round played at the National Stadium on Saturday.

Galaxy were visitors to the Namibian side and despite dominating the game for the better part of the match, lost 1-0, thanks to an early goal by Willy 'Awillo' Stephanus. Ramoreboli said his side had the better of chances in the tie but could not recover from falling behind early into the match. "We had a better match; we had a good game and unfortunately in football no matter how well you have played, if you do not score goals, if you do not win matches, it does not count. So I think we had a good game and tried our level best to make sure that we dominated the match. Unfortunately, we made things a little bit difficult for ourselves because we conceded early.

In the game of football when you concede early especially in that period because it was around the sixth minute, now you have to play the rest of the game chasing trying to get the result. It means you use a lot of energy trying to score and unfortunately we could not get a goal," said Ramoreboli. Stephanus shocked the handful crowd on the fourth minute when he headed in a cross to give his side the lead with the Galaxy defence caught napping. Mxolisi Mkhonto came closest for Galaxy but his shot from long range was parried away for a corner on the 20th minute. Seven minutes later, Gilbert Baruti had only the goalkeeper to beat but he saw his effort parried away for another corner kick by Kamaijanda Ndisiro.

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