A solitary Alex Juma goal scored in the first half was all newbies Bidco United needed to grab all the three points against a ten-man Kariobangi Sharks and extend their unbeaten streak to nine matches in a league match played at Thika Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.Coming into the match, Sharks were brimming in confidence as they ended their three-match losing streak with a comfortable win over Nzoia Sugar in their last outing. Bidco were fresh from holding defending champions to a draw.In the early exchanges of the game, it is Sharks who started intently as they got the first clear cut attempt of the game through none other than the league’s top scorer Eric Kapaito who was set through on goal. One on one against the keeper, the striker failed to do what he has done on 24 previous occasions this season as Brian Opondo in the Bidco goal saved his effort to keep the contest goalless a quarter of an hour in.🟢|FULL-TIME@BidcoUnited take the 3 points#FKFPL pic.twitter.com/aX5TaqniI2— FKF Premier League (@Officialfkfpl) August 18, 2021 Seven minutes after that, Bidco’s Alex Juma would punish Sharks and school Kapaito on how to take first time chances as he slotted in a Peter Anyona cutback cross into the area past a departing Brian Bwire in the Sharks goal to give his side the slim advantage heading into the half way interval.In the second half, with time running down and an equalizing goal proving hard to come by, Sharks head coach William Muluya made a quadruple of changes as he brought on James Mazembe, Ibrahim Kitawi, John Omondi and Boniface Mwangemi in place of Reagan Odede, Shphan Oyugi, Robert Onyango and Geoffrey Onyango with eighteen minutes left on the clock.81’| Red Card @k_sharksfc Patilla Omoto with a 2nd booking of the day..He’s sent offBidco 1-0 Sharks#FKFPL pic.twitter.com/CSFaMJ5e1n— FKF Premier League (@Officialfkfpl) August 18, 2021 Their chances of nicking at least a point in the game were hampered when midfield lynchpin Patillah Omotto was sent off after a second bookable offence that reduced Sharks to ten men in the final ten minutes of the game.With a superior man on the pitch, the league debutants held off Sharks threat to win all the three points in the match as they extended their unbeaten streak to nine games.
