Jaffari Owiti and Eugene Mukangula were both on target as AFC Leopards brushed aside Chemelil Sugar 2-1 in an entertaining Kenya Premier League match played in Kisumu on Thursday afternoon.
The win moves Ingwe to Position seven on the log. And despite all the talk about their struggles, they are now three points behind bitter rivals Gor Mahia who beat struggling Mt. Kenya FC 4-1 on Wednesday.
while Francis Ochola scored Chemelil’s only goal.
Leopards head coach Marko Vasiljevic could not hide his joy in his post-match comments, saying his charges gave their best in the match.
“This is a very important win for us, we scored early which gave us a good control of the game until the end,” said Vasiljevic
His Chemelil counterpart Francis Baraza blamed his side’s loss to silly mistakes.
“Every side played well. Like Leopards, we got our chances but we failed to capitalise on them and they (Leopards) took advantage of the mistakes we made to beat us,” said Baraza.