The seven competing teams at the African Cup for Club Championship have produced fifty-seven goals from six rounds of matches played so far in the men’s competition.
As a testament to the attacking prowess of the Egyptian clubs, two Egyptians are in the hunt for the top scorer award.
Sharkia’s penalty corner expert Ahmed Metwally has got five goals all through penalty corners and shares top spot with Faruk Yohanna of Nigeria’s Niger Flickers who has scored four field goals and one from a penalty corner. Three players, Police Union’s Sayeed Adnan, Salya Nsalbini and David Ghablah both of Ghana’s Trustees trail the duo with four goals each.
The ladies have a total goal haul of twenty-seven with Heartland’s Justina Onyadum scoring four of them. Rachael Bamfo of Extinguishers has three field goals to her name and Kenyan Jacqueline Wangechi has scored twice for Telkom Orange.
Trustees were involved in a grueling clash with Niger Flickers who earned a well deserved point in the 69th minute for perseverance.
Nsalbini Salya grabbed a brace for Trustees and this was replicated by tireless goal poacher Yohanna Faruk in attack for Flickers. The game ended in a 3-3 draw.
The match between Egyptian clubs Sharkia and Police Union became laborious as an obvious clash of styles prevented either side from making any headway in the final third. The game ended in a 1-1 deadlock when Amr Mohamed finally broke the back of Sharkia in classic fashion in a last-gasp effort on the 70th minute mark. The defending champions had been guarding a 19th minute lead jealously all evening and looked to be cruising to a win when they tripped.
Golden Sticks were unlucky to walk away without a point after so much exertion in a difficult duel with Strathmore of Kenya. Strathmore were 1-0 victors Bramwel Lijoodi’s field goal.
