THE FILIPINAS fell wanting finishing a two-game sweep of its assignments on the Pink Girls Week in Antalya, Turkey as they sustained a 1-4 defeat to Kenya on Wednesday.
On the heels of their 3-0 shutout of Jordan a dew days earlier than, the Filipinas sought one other spectacular end result however discovered the quick and aggressive Harambee Starlets to powerful a buyer and settled for a 1-1 win-loss mark on this journey.
“I’m disillusioned as a result of I felt like all through the week, the ladies responded properly to the brand new system,” stated coach Mark Torcaso, whose crew used the camp and competitors in Turkey to check its new attack-oriented enjoying fashion.
“We didn’t execute that fully. There have been loads of particular person errors, small errors that whenever you’re making an attempt to place collectively a recreation plan, can have an effect on you. And towards a crew like Kenya, who’re fast, bodily and have good particular person gamers that play in good leagues around the globe, they’ll punish you.”
Kenya set the tone with a quickfire aim from Elizabeth Mutukiza simply seven minutes in. The Harambee Starlets’ lead doubled within the 36th minute when Jessica Cowart’s clearance off a harmful cross on the correct facet ricocheted off Hali Lengthy and into the Philippine web.
The Filipinas pushed one again 20 minutes after restart as Sarina Bolden transformed from the spot. However the Kenyans shortly restored a two-goal lead with a marvel aim from substitute Purity Alukwe earlier than Fasila Adhiambo added a fourth with 9 minutes left to ice it.
“This was a possibility for us to implement one thing. We’re going to stay with that. We’re nonetheless going to work exhausting on what we’re making an attempt to do. However we even have to know that we will’t make errors in conditions that would trigger us issues, and we undoubtedly noticed a few of these right now,” stated Mr. Torcaso. — Olmin Leyba
