12-time Kenyan champions AFC Leopards will be hoping to get off the mark in the 25/26 SportPesa League campaign when they confront an unbeaten Posta Rangers at Dandora Stadium on Friday afternoon.
Posta Rangers, coached by former Kenyan international Sammy ‘Pamzo’ Omollo, have made the perfect start to the 25/26 campaign and are second on the log with six out of six possible points from their first two fixtures of the season against Mathare United and Tusker.
For Leopards, the match comes 13 days after their season opener against Sofapaka, where they were forced to settle for a point in the one-all draw at Ulinzi Complex.
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While Ingwe will be hoping to register their first win of the season, they will have to overcome their difficult spell against Posta Rangers as they have lost their last two fixtures.
In both instances, a 1-0 win is all the mailmen needed to complete the league double over Leopards.
What was said ahead of the AFC Leopards vs Posta Rangers clash
Speaking to the club’s media team, Leopards assistant coach Ken Wendo no injury concerns ahead of their second match of the season as he called on the team to record their first win.
“We don’t have any major injury concerns apart from Fredrick Alushula who will be out for a while. Everyone else is good to go and ready to give 100%.”
Wendo further reaffirmed the need for the club’s new signings to settle in quickly.
“As we all know, this is a very big club and the expectations and pressure to perform are very high, but so far, so good. The rest of the players have helped them to be integrated into the squad,” he said.
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On his part, AFC Leopards captain Ken Owino pointed out that the playing unit had learnt from its mistakes in the first match.
“We sat down and analyzed our errors and worked on rectifying them going into the second match of the season.
We know it’s not going to be easy with Posta Rangers having two wins in two matches but we are ready to face them,” said Owino, who captained the Mailmen before completing the switch to the Fred Ambani-led team in the 2023/24 mid-season transfer window.
A win for Posta takes them to the top of the league, while AFC Leopards’ first victory of the season will be a ray of hope for the 1998 champions.
AFC Leopards vs Posta Rangers H2H stats
The two clubs have met 25 times across all competitions. Leopards have secured 12 wins, Posta has five, and eight matches have ended in a stalemate.
Four of the eight draws have been by a 1-1 scoreline. Leopards has scored 32 goals, with Posta netting 20.
Recent meetings is in favour of Posta who have won the last two matches.
Sofapaka vs Kakamega Homeboyz (Dandora Stadium, 1PM)
Before the clash, Sofapaka and Kakamega Homeboyz will meet in the early kickoff game at 1 PM in the same venue.
Both teams are eyeing their first wins in the new season with Sofapaka collecting one point from two matches against AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia while Homeboyz drew 0-0 with Mara Sugar.
