Bosso blames fatigue for defeat

El Kanemi Warriors technical adviser Ladan Bosso has attributed his team's 3-1 loss to Mountain of Fire Miracles Ministry (MFM) in a match day six of the Nigeria Professional Football League at the Agege Stadium on Sunday to fatigue.

The Borno Armies were expected to travel to Lagos by flight but their air travel was cancelled due to unavailable more tickets in Maiduguri.

The players and officials of the team then traveled by road and reached Lagos on Saturday night and played on Sunday afternoon without rest.

“First of all, congratulation to MFM for their victory. We lost due to fatigue. We had a plan to come to Lagos by flight but the agent disappointed us. When we got to the airport we were told that only nine tickets were available and as a coach I can't tell only nine players to board a plan while others travel by road. So we had to embark on the journey by road on Friday and we reached Lagos on Saturday evening and still played on Sunday which was very difficult for my boys,” Bosso said.

“We have lost. We will go back and look at where we have problem technically and administratively so that we will know how to correct it.  It was a good game and the officiating was perfect.”

The former Kano Pillars gaffer also revealed that the team’s is in the rebuilding process, claiming that the majority of the players that was paraded last season have left the club.

He said out of ten old players remaining, six are injured, leaving the club with no choice than to use new players to prosecute the league.   

“The first three matches we lost on the streak, for me it was an expected end. The club was expected to retain fifteen players out of the players paraded last season.  But out of fifteen, five players still left when they got better offers. Again, out of ten that are remaining with us about six of them are down with injuries and they started the injury last season. So I am left with four old players. We have good players in the team but we are currently facing problem of blending the players together. The league is still fresh to be worried about and I hope everything will be sorted out very soon,” he said.