Former Kenyan international Simon Mulama says a number of experienced Kenyan players ought to be recalled to the national fold after the woeful show against Mali in the World Cup qualifiers.Kenya lost home and away to the West Africans, soaking in six goals without a reply in the process. It was a largely inexperienced squad assembled by new coach Engin Firat. In his bow as Stars coach in Morocco, his team socked in five goals, a much-improved performance three days later show Stars go down a solitary second-half goal.A number of senior players haven’t featured for Stars since Francis Kimanzi was replaced by Jacob ‘Ghost’ Mulee. Victor Wanyama was severally overlooked before he announced his retirement while the likes of Turkey-based Johanna Omolo, Ayub Timbe, Sundowns defender Brian Mandela, Patrick Matasi, Francis Kahata are believed to be out of the national team set up now.We miss you @VictorWanyama 😢 https://t.co/wrkmjpP37m pic.twitter.com/hlDoDG0Woc— Jack 🏴 (@JackFaeScotIand) October 9, 2021 Mulama now says it is time to consider some of these experienced players. He believes Tusker keeper Patrick Matasi should be Kenya’s first-choice keeper, while the likes of Kahata, Wanyama, Timbe, Johanna, and Mandela should be recalled to the national team fold.“Matasi should start in my opinion, Kahata could get a chance to start, Victor Wanyama could get a chance to start Ayub Timbe could play, Johanna Omolo as well should be in the team because no player at the moment plays the football that he plays, no one has the flair that he brings to the team. Those are critical players. Niang (Brian Mandela) should be starting because look at the goals we are conceding from corners yet we have a player like him who can deal with this kind of situation,” he said during a show with Madgoat TV.Yeah, Kenya lost again. Expected.But what did you make of the game?Some talking points from that home defeat#HarambeeStars https://t.co/61mdRNf1Jn— Ochi (@soo_ochieng) October 12, 2021 The former midfield wizard further believes that change in playing and coaching personnel has directly been hurting the national team’s performance.“We need consistency in the personnel, that is the coaches and the players because when a new coach comes on board, he takes the team to a different mindset. Every time we change the personnel then the style and mentality change. We do not have a consistent system and style of play,” he added.Kenya, whose hopes of making it to Qatar 2020 were ended by Mali on Sunday have two more dead-rubber matches to play next month. They will first travel to Kampala to play Uganda before ending the unsuccessful campaign with a match against Rwanda at home.
