Nairobi City Stars head coach Sanjin Alagic has admitted that his side missed Kevin ‘Chumsy’ Okumu during their league game against Wazito FC on Wednesday afternoon at the Ruaraka Grounds where they lost by a solitary goal.Okumu, on loan at City Stars, was barred from facing his parent club and in his absence, the Kawangware-based club fielded the largely underused in the position. Buliba looked solid defensively but didn’t offer much going forward before he was hooked off late in the game for Calvins Masawa.In an earlier interview, the tactician praised the impact that Okumu, Bolton Omwenga and Nicholas Kipkirui had brought into the team. The three players joined Simba wa Nairobi at the start of the year from Wazito, Biashara United and Gor Mahia respectively.Leo imekataa 😟FULLTIME SCORESNCS 0️⃣ – 1️⃣ WAZ#NCSWAZ#𝕊𝕚𝕞𝕓𝕒𝕎𝕒ℕ𝕒𝕚𝕣𝕠𝕓𝕚 pic.twitter.com/J7aHxbPqWC— Official Nairobi City Stars Fc (@NrbCityStars) June 30, 2021 Asked whether his team felt the absence of the marauding right-back, the Bosnian admitted that they missed the youngster but was contented by Buliba’s performers.”Chumsy is one of our key players, he has three assists in the last few games and we definitely missed him because he plays well both in attack and in defence. Edwin (Buliba) had a good game but when you don’t have a player like Chumsy there’s something that you’ll always lack,” he said.Alagic added that they had prepared for the game expecting that Okumu would feature only to be informed that he cannot face his parent club. He is however happy to have him available for Sunday’s match against Bandari in Mombasa.”We had prepared for the game with him in mind and then we were told that we couldn’t use him and we had to make a change. For a team, it destabilizes you a little but we did try to cope well and in our performance, there was no gap. Had we taken the chances that we missed I believe things would have been different but that’s football, such things happen and you have to move on and prepare for your next game, “he added. (function (el) { window.addEventListener(“message”, (event) => { if (event.origin.startsWith(“https://www.sofascore”)) { if (el.id === event.data.id) { el.style.height = event.data.height + “px”; } } }); })(document.getElementById(“sofa-standings-embed-17654-34876”)); Standings provided by SofaScore LiveScore
