Kenya police battle Gladiators. [Photo: Daily Nation]
The Kenya police runaway leaders are ready to be looking to move 13 points when they take the champions marathon to Strathmore University Gladiators on Saturday, City Park Stadium during the weekend picks Hockey Union League matches.
This is one of the 14 matches that have been lined in Nairobi this weekend. Other places to be held are Kabarak, Nakuru and Mombasa as the second leg campaign goes on.
In the women premier league, The Strathmore University scorpions are to entertain Amira sailors also at City Park as duo look to close the gap in the top two.
Another women league match was University of Nairobi placed in the bottom to face Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology( JKUAT).
Resurgent Sikh Union Nairobi is also to take KCA university in the men premier league in the same venue at 4 pm.
The focus will be more on the Gladiators police match with many branding it as a clash between the incoming and outgoing champions.
Police got the second leg with a 2-0 win over Packlands in Nairobi on Wednesday to move to 43 points. The coach Kenneth Kaunda is, however, warning against any premature celebrations.
"It will be unwise to think that we are already champions, there are a lot of games to come and we have to take it a game at a time," Kaunda warned on Friday.
Kaunda has also said that Willis Okeyo has returned to Germany. Gladiators coach Meshack Senge is the one to lead in 27 points behind the police. He has already conceded that title but wishes his side to end in a respectable position.
" We need the win more than them and target for the second leg is to try finish as high as possible as we build a team for next season," Senge, who also handles the Scorpion as well as the men national team," he said.