Technical Adviser of Shooting Stars Football Club of Ibadan Coach Gbenga Ogunbote has expressed mixed feelings that his wards were able to break the jinx of not winning their matches and that his team sent Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure into relegation.
The Oluyole Warriors won by a lone goal in a match played under closed doors due to the closure of the edifice to fans of the the 1996, 1998 National league champions because of the four match ban placed on the stadium as by the Interim League Management Company (ILMC)
Speaking at the Lekan Salami stadium in Ibadan Ogunbote who had coached the defunct Giwa Football club of Jos, Enyimba football club of Aba, Rangers Football Club of Enugu as well Sunshine Football Club stated that it was a mixed fortunes for him because his team was able to break from the cycle of not winning its matches just as the Akure Gunners as Sunshine Stars is fondly called would be proceeding on relegation because of the loss to Shooting Stars Football Club.
He explained that it was not that the visitors were bad pointing out that it just that fortune did not smile on them saying that in the game of football sometimes you put in everything positive but the results will not come.
The Technical Adviser observed that the Oluyole Warriors ought to have wrapped up the game during the first half noting that the trouble was the anxiety on the part of the players positing that this was the reason he asked them not to be anxious but play their normal game.
“ The match ought to have been wrapped up in the first forty five minutes except for anxiety on our part because we had been pilling pressure on them and I knew that the goal would come when it would come” he said.
“As for the penalty kick , it was well deserved because there was so much pressure on them and if they would not allow us to score ordinarily, then they would commit themselves and penalty was the result “Ogunbote pointed out further.
While commending his players, he expressed dissatisfaction that that in spite the good form of Sunshine Stars Football Club, they would be playing in the lower rung of the league not because they were not good as a team but because the results did not come their ways despite what they put in as a team.
