The coalacanthus A’ lost by a score of four goals to two. Minds are now focused on the next meeting to try to get third place.
The Coelacanthes A’ lost in the semi-final of the Indian Ocean Island Games with a score of four goals to two against the Barea A’ yesterday Thursday August 31 at the Barea Mahamasina stadium.
Completely struggling from the start of the match, the Comorian team was overwhelmed from the sides and conceded the first goal in the second minute. Before she had time to pull herself together, Randrianarijaona Tendry scored the second goal in the… fourth minute.
However, Faouz’s teammates had not completely thrown in the towel. This is how in the eighteenth minute, Sadad Abdallah Saïd reduced the score with a good header. Around the thirtieth minute, the match seemed balanced and the Malagasy attacks were rare. The two teams returned to the locker room with this score of two goals to one in favor of Barea. “Personally, I want to congratulate my players. We shouldn’t have any regrets. They fought enough, we saw warriors on the ground. It was not easy especially with a team of locals only.
The Bareas had all the arguments with them but, my players had a good match, unfortunately, luck was not on our side despite good chances. That’s how the high level is, everything has to be paid for,” said Ayman Abdou, who insisted on the fact that the players followed his instructions and that technically and tactically, there was nothing to be ashamed of. .
Four minutes after returning from the locker room, the Barea increased the lead before the Coelacanthes reduced it to the fifty-ninth with an own goal. In the sixty-fourth minute, coach Felix’s men were going to deliver the final blow to the Comorians and wipe out any hope of victory for the greens.
Comoros coach Mohamed Bouhari Abdoulkakarim points the finger at the refereeing: “At this level of the competition, such refereeing is intolerable, but there is nothing we can do about it. The match is already played,” he lamented, looking completely dejected before starting again: “now we are going to concentrate on the next match to try to get third place.”
