It is second against third as defending champions KCB host Homeboyz in a top of the table Kenya Cup round five match today.
With only two points separating the teams, there is everything to play for at the KCB Sports Club starting 4 pm and neither the bankers nor Homeboyz want to drop points because fourth-placed Impala Saracens may dislodge them since they face a relatively easy fixture away at Kisumu RFC.
Homeboyz, who are unbeaten just like KCB, head to the match as underdogs and they will be looking to defy the odds having won only two of their last seven Kenya Cup meetings with Curtis Olago’s men.
Homeboyz will have to survive KCB’s powerful forward play and set-piece prowess if they are to end their three-match winless streak in this fixture. The Deejays, who are coached by South African Hector Jason, have not beaten KCB since February 2017 when they claimed a 33-24 victory in Ruaraka.
Full back Isaac Njoroge, Darwin Mukidza and Geoffrey Okwach, who earned his maiden Kenya Sevens call up this week, are expected to shoulder the try-scoring burden for KCB having crossed the whitewash nine times between them thus far while Homeboyz will look up to the likes of Augustine Lugonzo, Leonard Mugaisi and Mohammed Omollo for inspiration.
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The teams last faced off at the Impala Floodlit semi-finals last month where KCB emerged 38-14 winners on their way to a third successive Floodlit title.
In Kakamega, league leaders Kabras Sugar welcome Kenyatta University’s Blak Blad with Kabras coach Henly Du Plessis exercising caution ahead of the fixture.
“It is always hard against the students because they give their all since they have nothing to lose so we shall just approach the game the way we would do against KCB,” Du Plessis said adding that he will parade his strongest team.
Even though they are fresh from claiming a morale-boosting 31-3 win over Kisumu RFC, the odds are firmly stacked against the students who received a 69-0 hiding the last time they made the trip to the Kakamega Showground.
Kenya Harlequin, the only winless team after matchday four, are keen on improving their position on the 12-team standings as they face Menengai Oilers at the RFUEA ground.
