KCB skipper Michael Mutinda is feared to be ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a nasty injury to his left knee during his team’s loss to Tusker at the Ruaraka grounds on Wednesday afternoon.Exclusive club communication to Mozzart Sport shortly after the game confirmed that the injury could serve the long-serving KCB player a huge blow, all leaning to the possibility that the season could be done for him.📸 Yesterday’s @Officialfkfpl match from our lenses. #Believe #LionHearted 🦁[Photo Thread] pic.twitter.com/CGVwuSnafy— KCB Football Club (@KCBFootball) April 27, 2023 “Early reaction from the coach is that the player could be out for the remaining games this season,” a club source said as Mutinda was taken to hospital in an ambulance.The injury occurred in the dying minutes of added time as Mutinda appeared to land awkwardly after contesting a header from a late KCB corner from the left hand side.The defensive midfielder remained on the turf seeming to be in deep pain, and action was paused for a while before he was stretchered off the field with a knee brace wrapped round the left knee.”Best feeling in my life”: Tusker’s Michael Oduor speaks of first club goalThe team would end up playing a man less in what was a 0-1 defeat to the side that sits fourth on the FKF Premier League table with 49 points.Mutinda in June 2021 suffered a separate injury to his knee in the national team camp having secured his maiden call up for Harambee Stars’ clash against Comoros in the 2021 AFCON qualifiers.His absence will be felt for the Bankers as they enter their last seven games of the season and as they prepare for Saturday’s crunch Mozzart Bet quarter-final tie against Tusker at the Police Sacco stadium.##NAJAVA_MECA_7208831##On the Tusker side, left back Levin Odhiambo was hooked in the first half of the KCB clash with what looked like a left ankle injury but remained with the rest of the team till full time.“I am yet to communicate with our medical team on his injury so I can’t say anything on his status right now,” Tusker head coach Michael Mutinda. “We will have a look tomorrow [Thursday].”Also missing from the Tusker team was center back Charles Momanyi who apparently picked up a knock during training on Tuesday but as per Matano, keeping him out of Wednesday’s game was ‘precautionary’ and will join the fold soon.
