Mathare United centre back Harun Junior has backed the team to rise from the ruins and eventually safeguard their top flight status that is increasingly under the threat of slipping through the hands.The 2008 league champions are having a season similar to that of the last term as they are languishing deep inside the red zone having lost fifteen out of the 19 matches they have played thus far.Harun Junior starts for Mathare United against Wazito. He has been out for 21 months after rapturing his ACL.#FKFPL pic.twitter.com/2xHwtVll1h— Ole Teya (@Kevin_teya) December 19, 2021 Last season, the club that was once famed for churning out outstanding players beat relegation in the final round of the season after spending the better part of it in the red zone.With the same scenario presenting itself in the current campaign, Harun who joined Mathare in 2017 from Shanzu United is says that team work in the remaining rounds will bail them out once again.”I am certain of is we will beat relegation despite our ranking and form. We just have to embrace teamwork and be clinical in front of the goal in the remaining matches,” he said.I am lucky to kick the ball again says Mathare defenderMeanwhile, the defender who earned his second start of the season during their 3-0 hammering by Nairobi City Stars says he is impressed with his fitness levels. He partnered Victor Odhiambo at the heart of the defence. Harun spend more than a year on the sidelines after tearing both of his right leg’s Anterior Cruciate Ligament and meniscus and in February 2020 and was cleared to resume training in October last year.”I am slowly getting back to my best. At least I have began getting playing time that will go a long way in helping me get back to shape,” he added.
