By: Jerome Otchere

Date: 28-11-11

For three consecutive matches, Kotoko’s top marksmen, the Ivorian, Ahmed Toure and Nathaniel Asamoah played without scoring.

The two strikers who had scored in the first four league matches of the season, were however not lucky to have hit the back of the net in the succeeding games.

That not surprisingly opened the gates for primitive minded spiritualists, who benefited from the undeserved opportunities offered them by some radio stations to make all manner of superstitious claims about the two strikers – why they were not scoring in addition to why their goal famine was far from over.

However, in less than 30 minutes of Sunday’s Kotoko-Wassaman United duel, Ahmed Toure and Nathaniel Asamoah made nonsense of all the juju stories against them.

They in fact silenced their critics by scoring two goals each in 28 minutes to seal victory for the fabulous side. It was not as if Nathaniel and Toure were just lucky to have scored. They played well and teamed up excellently with their colleagues to get the goals and most importantly the win.

Speaking in post match interviews with Kotoko Express, the two players explained that their inability to score in previous matches was nothing strange. Nathaniel Asamoah, who was first to speak observed that most defenders in the Premiership have employed effective strategies to counter the strikers’ efforts of attackers even though they have been working hard.

“I have seen that the top marksmen are targeted. We are prevented from scoring although we have been doing our best. We still have to do more to outwit them because they will play to their ability to stop us from scoring but we also have to be creative and get the goals” said Nathaniel.

Ahmed Toure agreed with his team mate but insisted that goal poachers do not always score. “We do not score all the time. I cannot score in every match” he said disclosing however, that he was happy to have scored on Sunday. Whereas Ahmed Toure has six goals, Nathaniel Asamoah has five with the league’s top scorer, Emmanuel Baffoe of Edubiase FC having eight goals.