Sports News of Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Source: footballghana.com

Coach Slavko Matic must be partly blamed for Hearts of Oak’s poor form – Mohammed Polo

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Accra Hearts of Oak legend, Mohammed Polo has said that head coach Slavko Matic has not helped the club.

According to him, the club’s recent poor form is due to the decision by the board to allow the Serbian tactician to sack players that he came to meet in the team.

“How can a new coach just decide to sack players he thinks are aging without thorough knowledge about them? If you cannot adopt a technical direction that will suit the players available to you as a coach, you will always have problems and that is the exact problem Hearts is confronted with,” Mohammed Polo said to Akoma FM in an interview.

The Ghanaian tactician added, “The players at Hearts are fantastic but it's the coach who needs to develop a strategy that will see Hearts winning. Sacking the players is not the solution.

“The coach (Matic) must be partly blamed for the poor run of the club, he needs to fix it as soon as possible.”

Hearts of Oak are recently on a very poor run. Having drawn all Ghana Premier League games in the last two outings, the Phobians have also been eliminated from this season’s MTN FA Cup following a 1-0 defeat to Dreams FC in Round 32.