“The game is not over yet,” Fathi told
Goal after the match played at Nyayo Stadium. “We are celebrating here now and I have told my players that immediately we land in Lusaka; we must shift focus to the return leg.
“Gor Mahia is a very difficult team, they proved they are tough to beat until we were forced to change our tact, so we cannot be able to underrate them now we won, we have to stay focused and work on mistakes we committed ahead of the return leg.”
During the match, Napsa Stars scored their goal from the only shot on target and when asked whether that was his game plan, Fathi explained: “We did manage one short on target which resulted in the goal, but it was not our plan to play like that, you know the game was locked in the midfield so I had to plan and change the tact and it is the reason we managed to win the game.”