Gambia Coach Johnathan McKinstry has spoken has spoken highly of new Kenya head coach Benni McCarthy ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier.
McCarthy starts his reign as the Harambee Stars coach against Gambia next week after being unveiled earlier this week.
McKinstry believes Kenya will be a more attacking team under McCarthy in the future.
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"We have Kenya game coming up, and Kenya is an interesting one because Kenya for the last five years, they have drawn a lot of football matches, I think in their last 20 games, they have drawn 10 of them, they have lost six of the last 20 competitive but a lot of draws," McKinstry told Flashscore.
"If you had asked me six months ago, I would say we were expecting a Kenyan team, who will settle on a low block, defend and try to win off a corner or set-pieces, that is what the former coach's strategy was, he didn't really let the team come out and play.
"They were a very defensive minded team and you could even call them previously a counter attacking team, they very much wanted to get a goal off a corner or free-kick.
"But it is a new coach, it is a new era in Kenyan football, Benni (McCarthy) has obviously taken over recently and, historically, Benni's teams, if you look at his team's in South Africa whether it was AmaZulu, whether it was Cape Town City, his teams have historically wanted to press more, wanted to be more attacking, he was obviously an incredible footballer himself.
"Most recently he was a strikers coach at Manchester United, so he has a very attacking forward thinking mentality in the game but he only has two or three days of his new players, so again how much of that can be impacted in a short period of time.
"But equally, when I came here a year ago, the first camp we saw attacking football very quickly and if you approach the camp right, you can make that switch very quickly."
