Nzoia Sugar have confirmed that the duo of Kevin Juma and Felicien Okanda will miss next week’s league match away to Bidco United due to injuries.Juma suffered a knee injury last week while in action against the 2008 league champions Mathare United at Utalii grounds while Okanda is understood to have picked the injury in training.The club’s head coach Salim Babu confirmed that the two influential players will not travel for the game scheduled to be held at Thika Stadium having failed the fitness tests.##NAJAVA_MECA_6916552##The former Western Stima boss further disclosed that his offensive midfielder Hassan Beja who has won the outfit a number of penalties is an injury doubt for the duel.”I will be without the two players who haven’t recovered yet. We are also assessing Beja who has been on top of his game in the five matches played so far,” he revealed.How football talent broke barriers for Wadadia trainer Joy WanjauIn the absence of Juma who serves as the club assistant captain, Babu will look up to former Sony Sugar captain Harun Thomas to fill in the gap with Stephen Otieno taking the slot left by Okanda.Babu said the replacements were equal to the task and tipped them to outdo themselves as well as try to use the opportunity and show why they shouldn’t be warming the bench.”I have good replacements to the injured players. This is a chance they should grab with both hands and help the team get positive results. They have been patient and waiting for the turn and hopefully, they will do well,” remarked the former Wazito coach.Kapaito offers counsel to Sharks’ forwards, tips them to break his records in futureNzoia will be hunting for the fifth win of the season when they tackle the struggling Thika based club.While the sugar men have been punching above their weight, Bidco on the other hand have been awful as they have won a game in five rounds.
