Gor Mahia take on Sofapaka in Supercup
Gor Mahia will take on League runners up and GoTV winners Sofapaka in the annual DSTV Supercup which pits the league champions against the cup winners. The match is sponsored by DSTV Supercup with Ksh 1.25 million at stake. The winners pocket Ksh 750,000 while the runners up will pocket Ksh 500,000.
With KPL and FKF still entangled in a disagreement, there have been doubts about whether FKF referees will be available. FKF had barred referees from officiating the match.
But yesterday, as Supersport and KPL unveiled the Super Cup, the chairman of referees’ association GMT Ottieno said they would use match officials just as last season, but would not disclose their identities for now. “I can confirm that we will use match officials from last season’s register, recognised by the federation and by the referees’ association as qualified,” Ottieno told the Standard.
Sofapaka has the Upper Hand
Going by recent results Sofapaka have the upper hand. The last time these two sides met, Sofapaka won 3-2. On that occasion Sofapaka appeared to have read Gor Mahia like a book. Indeed Sofapaka coach Sam Timbe appears to be a master of studying teams and coming up with a counter strategy as evidenced by their win over Power Dynamos.
“So far so good,” Sofapaka assistant coach David Ouma said. “The first two phases of our pre-season have gone according to plan. Although we have not hit the right notes, we are satisfied with our signings. We feel we have the depth even on bench. “The only absentees are Frankline Miheso who is still in Finland and Eugene Asike who is working on his fitness,” said assistant coach David Ouma to the Nation.
For coach Frank Nuttall, he now has a chance to make amends for the 2-3 loss last season. By now he knows what to expect from Sofapaka having had chances to study them. But Nuttall is still busy trying to come up with a cohesive unit after the side he coached last season was overhauled.
“Our pre-season training was good enough and playing against Power Dynamos was a perfect timing as we gauged our preparedness for a huge assignment in Caf competition. Of course, we are not going to underrate our opponents and will remain focused for this fixture because we want to advance.“We need a convincing result to carry to Madagascar and our main target is to avoid conceding a goal at home. It will give them (CNaPS) away goal advantage and this can complicate things for us when we replay in a fortnight.” said Nuttall to goal.com
One thing I like about this game is that it is setting the pace and the tone for what might as well be the battle of the giants in our league. This is going to be one of the toughest league we have hard in the recent years.
so is it curtain raiser for KPL premier league or FKF premier league….?
For the first time in Kenya two premier leagues will kick off simultaneously on 14th February 2015…the KPL premier league with 16 teams and the FKF premier league with just about 4 or 5 teams or maybe less.
amazing Kenya, simply amazing Kenyans !!!!
Nyamweyas league is kicking off on 14th and yet the fixtures are not yet out.KPL league was scheduled to kick off on 21st.At this rate,President Uhuru and Blatter will have to intervene.
why should we strangle one another due to Football issues.Don’t you see hooliganism.If it is not then why can’t you come to terms the two big brothers.i.e KPL and FKF
Uper hand? Sofapaka won’t be playing with school boys! these guys are professionals and they get paid to play football. They (Sofapaka) will be surprised.
can somebody please give me the updates so far on the match btwn gor n sofapaka
Thank you God for the win! I said it
Thanks God for the win. Those of little faith it’s time we start to believe that we can despite our poor start to the preseason.
I still believe that this time we have a good team and would wish away the fKF confusion as it’s the most distructive thing in Kenya football