By Gracious Akujobi Dolphins’ captain, Sunday Rotimi has blamed the team’s loss in Malabo to Leones Vegetarianos on Saturday, to missed chances.
Dolphins lost the CAF Confederation Cup game via a 57th minute goal and Rotimi says that goal may not have mattered if the team had taken their chances.
“It’s a game we should have won but our attackers threw away many chances in the first half. From where I was, I counted four of them.
“In important games like these you must take your chances and these four we got were clear cut chances and we should have scored them but our attackers failed to do so and the result is the loss,” he said.
Rotimi also pointed out that the team was not robbed in Malabo but that they lost due to carelessness.
“We know the terrain very well and referees will always give slight advantages to the home side which he did on Saturday, but imagine if we had scored those four goals or even two of them the story would have been different.
“We were not robbed, we were just careless on the day,” Rotimi said.
Meanwhile, Dolphins left full back, Jonathan Zikiye has admitted he must share in the blame for the goal in Malabo that cost his side a 1-0 defeat to Leones Vegetarianos in the CAF Confederation Cup.
“That goal was scored after a little slip from our part as defenders and it started from my side,” Zikiye said.
“It was a moment of loss of concentration but in every football match there are bound to be mistakes but the important thing is for us to learn from these mistakes.
“We are working hard for the second leg and we believe we will be able to turn it around,” Zikiye enthused.
It was Jonathan Zikiye’s first ever game on the continent and he spoke on what the experience was like.
“It was a good experience even though we lost the game. We went there to win but we lost
“It was a good experience and we hope to turn it around when they come to Nigeria.”
