Despite suffering a minor blip in the title race following their 2-1 loss to Bandari on Sunday, Kakamega Homeboyz head coach Bernard Mwalala firmly believes that his side is still in the title race.The loss saw reigning Football Kenya Federation Premier League (FKFPL) champions Tusker FC whittle down Abana Abeingo’s lead at the summit of the log to six points.Full Time:We suffer our second defeat of the seasonBandari 2-1 Homeboyz Owino 81′ pic.twitter.com/nBHrGja0dZ— Kakamega Homeboyz FC (@FcHomeboyz) March 13, 2022 Mwalala revealed that they are still committed to their course this season and set his sights on securing a win against Ulinzi Stars on Thursday for another away game.“We have to plan ourselves now because the league is still on, we have a game on Thursday which we will go back to the drawing board and see what we can get from Ulinzi. Our plans have not been scrapped and this is not a set back our target is still very clear and our focus will be on the next match,” said Mwalala. Suitors keep on coming – Saudi consortium offers 3.5 billion USD bid to by ChelseaThe former Bandari FC head coach could not make much of his return to his old stomping yard as he picked up his first away loss of the season and only his second overall.Mwalala added that he had foreseen the defeat coming having exhausted their energy reserves in the past away games having been on the road in three of their last five games.“I expected the result to be this way because when I look at how my team was performing away from home we used a lot of energy. I don’t think that Bandari performed well, we are the ones who did vert badly but I give them credit for winning, it was not a final neither was it Mwalala against Bandari, it was just a normal league game,” added Mwalala.
