The defending league champions, Obuasi Ashanti gold SC will host Techiman City at the Obuasi Len Clay Sports Stadium in their seventeenth league fixture as the champions are struggling to survive the league this season.
With all the big name recruits that came to the club this season through the ranks of big teams in the country to augment their experience side, Ashanti gold are on a run of a disappointing season lying second from the bottom of the league table with sixteen (16) points having conceded seventeen (17) and forced only twelve (12).
It would not be a record Ashanti gold would be proud of as defending league champions which will ginger them in putting all what it requires to get the results at the Len Clay Sports Stadium against Techiman City.
Salvaging something contrary to all three points in this encounter will mean to suggest that, the current league champions will take extra weeks to get themselves out of the relegation drop zone whiles the weeks in the league gradually ticks off.
It doesn't look gloomy for Ashanti gold who rest together with their Adansi neighbours, New Edubiase, at the bottom of the league entering into a tricky game against Techiman City yet will have some bite of a cherry as against the fact that their opponents have been bad travellers in the league and will sake to get some hopes of winning the game at their own backyard.
Techiman City have shown with purpose of how strong they are at home but more weak outside their territories having had the better of experienced teams at home and losing it off easily in away games.
They can keep their hopes of staying in the league beyond this season in this encounter to get a reasonable results against a side needing nothing but all three points to relieve them out of a relegation dog fight.
Techiman City have not had the required points that can help them survive in the league as they already have in their bags twenty (20) points out of sixteen (16) games.
Captain Stephen Manu and his colleagues have a herculean task to handle at Len Clay against a more dreadful and sluggish side in the league this season.
MATCH OFFICIALS
Center referee: Timothy Obuobisa
Assistant line one: J.B Smith
Assistant line two: Nii Kotey Kotei
Fourth official: Prince Amoah
Match Commissioner: A.S Seidu
