No room for laxity as busy 2018 awaits Harambee Stars

Harambee Stars' goalkeeper Patrick Matasi during this year's Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup final in Machakos on December 17. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Kenya’s failure to win their first match of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Sierra Leone might return to haunt the team’s ambitions as the tournament resumes next year.

Harambee Stars lost 2-1 to the West African nation and with pending fixtures against Ghana and Ethiopia on the cards, the team, now under Paul Put, has a lot of work to do.