Tanzanian league champions Young Africans (Yanga) and Nigeria’s Rivers United earned convincing three-goal wins as the second match day of the group phase of the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup rolled on across different venues on Sunday.
In Dar es Salaam, Yanga who started off their campaign with defeat away to
The Belgian tactician, who is still unbeaten since joining Yanga as a replacement for Serbian Zlatko Krmpotic, has revealed his players deserved to win the game in normal time but they relaxed, which allowed Azam to hold them to a draw.
“The intensity of the match was high but the match was very slow,” Kaze said as quoted by
“We did not pressurise our opponents for more goals, instead we got back to defend and this resulted for Azam to gain the confidence to recovery and score an equalizer.”
Kaze has, however, praised his players for their quality from the penalty spot and said they are in the final to win the trophy.