Reigning league champions Tusker FC suffered their maiden loss of the season but head coach Robert Matano held his head high, noting that there are still many games to the end of the season.Goals from Umaru Kasumba and Andrew Juma were enough for Bandari to sink Tusker at the Mbaraki Stadium in Mombasa as not even a strike from Jackson Macharia could spur a comeback in the second half.Bandari head coach lauds Kasumba after overcoming misfortunes to net against TuskerMatano, who has won the league four times, admitted that losing is part of the game adding that there are still many games to play before curtains can come falling on the season.”The league is still on and we are still continuing with it, losing is part of the game, we have played the seventh match and the remaining games are still many. We will work continue working hard for our next match,” said Matano.##NAJAVA_MECA_6929283##Despite the loss, Tusker still remain at the summit of the log with a point buffer against surprise second-placed Nzoia Sugar, who registered a draw against Kakamega Homeboyz on Sunday.The former Sofapaka head coach however noted that they started the game on a wrong footing as he had to hook off Eric Zakayo, Steward Omondia, and Rodgers Ouma for Eric Otieno, Jackson Macharia, and Deogragious Ojok at halftime.Ouma tips Sofapaka keeper for great service to Harambee Stars”We started the game badly, the goalkeeper and defense had a lack of communication which led to one of the goals, that is however not a problem we still have a number of games to fix that.Those who were in the first half did not play the way we wanted, that was not their day but they will play well in the coming games, but we have to play to win the coming games,” added Matano.
