Nahki Wells is fit in body, if not necessarily in spirit, after Huddersfield Town’s 2-0 home defeat to Fulham on Saturday and joined up with his Bermuda team-mates in Bahamas last night.

The Bermuda striker missed two penalties in a bizarre game which Huddersfield dominated and in which referee Richard Clark sent off Fulham’s Cauley Woodrow for a handball but after protests, changed his mind and sent off Shaun Hutchinson instead.

Wells missed the resulting penalty, putting his effort at a nice height and within easy reach of Marcus Bettinelli, the Fulham goalkeeper. Still, the striker had a chance to make amends after Sean Scannell was fouled by Ashley Richards, but his second penalty hit the post.

Huddersfield have now not won in six games and have slipped to eighteenth in the Sky Bet Championship, the good news for Bermuda, however, is that Wells came through the 90 minutes without any reaction to the injury that kept him out of the side for almost a month.

“Wells played a full game without any issues, and will travel with Bermuda as planned,” a Huddersfield spokesman said.

Bermuda arrived in Bahamas in several groups yesterday afternoon, ahead of the first leg of their 2018 World Cup qualifier in Nassau on Wednesday.

The Europe-based players will be given this morning off to recover from the flight, while the rest of the squad will take part in a light training session.

Marco Warren, meanwhile, has withdrawn from the 23-man squad. Warren, the PHC midfielder, was forced to pull out because of school commitments and has been replaced by Lejuan Simmons, the Robin Hood midfielder.

The Bermuda Football Association said it supported Warren’s decision and expected him to be available for the second round against Guatemala, should Bermuda win.

There had been a suggestion that Warren’s decision to withdraw was made necessary by concerns that playing would impact his eligibility with the NCAA, however Richard Todd, the BFA’s national academy director, said this was not the case.

“Marco Warren has a course that he cannot miss any more classes, if he does he will have to withdraw from the class and this will impact his academic progress as well as his eligibility for the fall college season,” Todd said.

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