Seyoum Kebede who boasted about making Mekelakeya capable of mounting a serious title contention faced a humiliating defeat at home to the hands of Adama. The four star general Dawa Hutesa led the massacre bursting the back of the net four times. “It is a dream come true to help Adama’s revival in the title contention,” Dawa remarked after the sweet away victory while Seyoum remained silent in fear of a backlash.
Though Mekelakeya managed a 1-0 knock-out quarter final victory over old rivals Saint George on Tuesday, it does not mean The Army side is in good form. One mistake from Saint George meant that Mekelakeya got away with that slander victory. But considering Saint Georges’ ten golden chances it was more to luck than hard work therefore Seyoum need to focus on building a humble side out of what he has under his command. Yes Mekelakeya has no foreign player but forget not it is the knock-out holder back from international fixtures.
Mekelakeya is a lone striker’s team with Menyelu Wondemu scoring six of the nine goals but the defense has given up eleven goals. Mekelakeya’s mid field is a slow moving machine fully dominated in both matches against Adama and Saint George. This is a breach of discipline breach that has led to two red cards in a single match, a weak defense, a one man strike force and slow moving mid field hard times are sure to come to Seyoum Kebede.
The wind fall mid week win over Saint George could boost the morale of Mekelakeya in the coming fixtures but if rebuilding the team does not take place, let alone title contention surviving in the league could be a high hill to mount.

The 26-year-old beat Medhi Benatia, Kalidou Koulibaly, Sadio Mane and Thomas Partey to the prize. The Premier League’s player of the year scored 44 goals in 52 games for Liverpool last season.
As well as inspiring his club to the Champions League final, Salah scored twice for Egypt at this year’s World Cup, having netted both goals in the match which took his country to the tournament for the first time since 1990.
Salah said his aim for 2019 is “to win something with the club so everyone is excited”. The BBC received more than 650,000 votes this year – a record for the award.
Salah becomes the first player since Nigerian Jay-Jay Okocha to win in consecutive years. The former Chelsea player signed for the Reds from Roma in the summer of 2017. He scored 15 goals and made 11 others for the Italian side in 2016-17 as they finished second in Serie A, their best league placing for seven years.
In a phenomenal start to his Liverpool career, Salah scored 19 goals in his first 24 appearances. He went on to beat the previous record of 31 goals in a 38-game Premier League season shared by Luis Suarez for the Reds in 2013-14, Cristiano

Ethiopian Premier League tenth week fixtures biggest showdown takes place today in Hawassa featuring a derby match between hosts Sidama Bunna and visitors Ethiopia Bunna.
In its best ever season start Ethiopia Bunna faces a fierce away adversary mortally wounded Sidama Bunna back from season’s first defeat at the hands of Mekele.
Sidama is among the strong sides’ this current season but highly dependable on the lone goal machine Addis Gedey who scored seven of the club’s nine goals and its defense is very weak, conceding eight goals. Coach Zeray Mulu has done a good job building a side out of average players with an amazing winning spirit. Sidama sits third with 13 points from seven matches.
On the other hand the visitors Ethiopia Bunna are in strong form coming from three successive victories. Five foreign players including the two up front, the guests’ scored eight goals while conceding three thus a balanced team leading the league season with 18 points from eight matches. Although four of the eight goals are from a spot kick courtesy of Abubaker Nesru, Bunna’s mid field is by far more well-organized than the hosts.
An win means high moral boosting results for the visitors whereas Sidama is expected to turn the situation in to inspiring the players back into a strong title contention. Considering the fact on the ground the difference of having local or foreign coaches is significant neither in the result nor in the art of the football.
Famous for having the biggest and noisiest travelling fans and better squad members, Ethiopia Bunna appears the favorite to return home with all three points. But a goal less draw is the most likely result for these days away wins are very rare and precious. The other big match over the weekend is the showdown between relegation threatened Shere Sehul against visitors Debub Police. The hosts are 14th in the table with five points from eight matches while the visitors are 15th with four points from nine outings.

Dedebit walked out of Ethiopian knock-out quarter final stage on grounds of financial insecurity. Ethiopian Football federation is oblivious of handling such bizarre situations so they chose to keep quiet about the new developments. What if others follow suit?
EFF should have readymade regulations to address such unforeseen situations in order to make sure clubs are obliged to stay in championships once registered at the start of the season. The major step to be taken facing such incidents involves checking out clubs’ financial statements at the time of registration. EFF’s unpreparedness to do that has brought about bizarre situations which demoralizes other clubs.
Dedebit’s walkout gave Ethiopia Bunna a place in the quarter final without kicking a ball while others like Fasil achieved that fate after an away 1-0 victory over Welwalo-Adigrat in mid-week. The Gondor based Emperors face the winner of hosts Adama against visitors Bahirdar in a date not yet disclosed to the participating teams.
Dedebit’s sudden walkout will be a bad precedent to Ethiopian Football governing body EFF, incapable of organizing two championships among just sixteen clubs in a country that boasts 13 months of sunshine. Failure of handling such situations could leave EFF a toothless Lion with no power on its subjects. What if any one of the 16 teams walkout in the middle of the league season?