Though Kotoko did ‘discipline’ the loud-mouthed Division Two braggarts, Danbort F.C 3-0, Serbian trainers, Bogdan Korak and his compatriot, Slobodan Gijnic, say their joy is not particularly with the score line, but with the fact that their training techniques are working.

In a post match interview with Kotoko Express, the pair, speaking through their interpreter, Popovic Aryee, disclosed that their emphasis at training has always been to bring the conditioning of the players up to acceptable level.

“…And it was clear from the match that my players now have a superior conditioning which makes it possible to run around the pitch chasing the ball and also closing down on opponents”.

“Playing against lower division clubs have always been difficult for premiership sides so I asked my boys to go on to the pitch to enjoy themselves by playing simple football with good passing…”

“This they did to perfection and I am happy that we also won because there would have been no point of interest if we had played all the beautiful football and had no goal to show for it”.

The team played well and also scored three goals, but patrons to the match will also admit that the attackers were so wasteful as they blew one chance after another to the dislike of the fans who enjoyed them selves anyway.

To this worry, Korak provides what appears to be a palpable answer:

“When we look at the workload at training and the fact that we are operating within a tight training and playing schedule, it is just but fair to say that the players are really doing very well”.

“Per our programme, we have two training sessions (Morning and evening) on Monday and Tuesday, play a match on Wednesday and then go back to out tough training from Thursday and Friday”.

“It is therefore that the only time when they get to rest is on Saturday’s and even that hinges on when we do not have an away match to play, because we normally travel for away matches on Saturdays”.

Despite the explanation given, he was quick to admit that there was work to be done upfront.

“I acknowledge that there is work to be done with the attackers and we will pay good attention to it at training”.

“We should also know that it takes a lot of playing time together for attackers to effective bond and gel to produce the desire results. I therefore want all to just give us the space to work on the players and see what will become of the attackers as we progress from match to match”.

Having scaled Danbort F.C challenge, Kotoko waits in patience for their next opponents and this match Korak says would be another exciting one for reasons he freely shares.

“We have been improving match after match and our next match will offer an even interesting football from my team. Our target is to be fully charged and ready when the league resumes after the CHAN tournament,” he concluded.