Wolkite in Dire straits, Insurance target sixt straight win

Wolkite City have their work cut out when they face Dire Dawa City fighting to survive in the Ethiopia Premier League.

Ethiopian Insurance take on Adama City looking to earn their sixth consecutive win as the week 26th fixtures begin at the Hawassa University Stadium from tomorrow.

Wolkite City needs to find a way to win against Dire Dawa if they are to overcome the threat of relegation hanging over them all season.

They have been unfortunately paired against the top teams in the league in the latest matches in terms of quality of players and seasonal performance and lost to all of them.

Wolkite are on 16 points and currently ranked 14th on the log but their opponents, Dire Dawa City, led by coach Shimels, have not fared any better in terms of form, and they failed to win any of their last three games.

They scored only one goal in these games and conceded seven goals especially last week's surprise 5-0 defeat by Ethiopian Insurance.

Dire Dawa Kenema has 34 points and are in 9th place in the ranking.

In the second match of the day, Ethiopian Insurance will meet Adama City, and no team has had the kind of run that Insurance has racked up in the Premier League, especially in the last five matches.

Insurance have won five matches in a row and did not concede a goal in the last four games scoring an impressive 13 goals.

There is a great deal of expectations around coach Gebremedhin Haile and his lads about how high they will finish this season after raising their level from the poor start to this seeming championship style winning run.

Adama City, on the other hand, has not lost in the last five consecutive games setting the stage for a humdinger of a clash.

Adama won three of these games and shared points in two of them and they have