Mekele had 7 of its top players injured during training and thus its remaining players had to play with little to no substitutions. . The goal was scored against them @ 74 minutes immediately after Mekele players were disputing a wrong judgment few minutes prior to that. The rest is history!
The only good thing about this match was Mekele fans and Amharu fans were friendly to one another like never seen before. This shows how disciplined Tigreans are. Two of the players of Fasil are Tigreans too. Amharu were humbled by that and by the fact that Tigrean fans are very civilized people and felt no bitterness that an unfair but nice goal was scored against their team.