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Despite the fact the venoms had to depend on luck in the shootouts for the third cup game consecutively, the team can breathe with a sigh of relief after scoring their first goal from open play this year.
Alex Isabirye has said that Vipers’ main problem was the players’ attitude and character. Isabirye guided the team to the quarterfinals of the Stanbic Uganda Cup following a 4-3 victory in penalties after a 1-1 draw in regulation time.
Despite the fact the venoms had to depend on luck in the shootouts for the third cup game consecutively, the team can breathe with a sigh of relief after scoring their first goal from open play this year.
Isabirye, who joined just 48 hours before the game, says that he had to work on his players’ mentality to get the result.
“I had five days to think and find out what went wrong,” Isabirye told the media.
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He added: “I found that it was their attitude and character so, what I did, I went into their minds and then changed that.”
Wild Celebration
Isabirye went into wild celebrations after Ashraf Mandela’s 79th-minute strike that ended the club’s 776 minutes of goal drought that had comprised Brazillians Roberto Oliviera’s last moments with the team and the whole of Beto Bianchi’s tenure.
The coach says that his celebration was brought by the joy of scoring after missing tonnes of chances and not aimed at Bianchi’s fate.
“I was happy because of that goal not because we had gone seven games without scoring but coming from a 1-nil down. We played 80 minutes but had only one shot on goal which I wasn’t happy with but I liked the character of fighting until the end,” he clarified.
The last time Vipers scored a goal before Mandela’s strike was against BUL where they fished Isabirye from.
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