Gor Mahia vs Stima ends in scoreless tie
After 3 succesive wins, Gor Mahia wrapped up their first leg matches by tying Western Stima 0-0 in a midweek clash played at the City Stadium. Coach Logarusic played the same line up that won against KCB on Saturday with the exception of David Owino who made way for Moses Otieno in defensive midfield.
It was Kogalo who showed more hunger for goals, piling pressure on the Stima goal for long periods. But the powermen held on doggedly for the point. Gor Mahia played well and had the lions share of possession and far more shots on goal. But a combination of poor finishing, bad luck and dogged defending by Stima prevented the all important goal.
In the first half, Baldwin Ngwa took advantage of a defensive blunder but his shot went wide. Other chances that went to Ivan Anguyo and Moses Odhiambo went begging. In the second half it was Kevin Omondi and George Midenyo who came close but to the fans frustration, could not score.
Gor Mahia Lineup: Jerim Onyango, Yusuf Juma, Donald Mosoti, Musa Mohamed, Ivan Anguyo, Moses Otieno, Rama Salim, Moses Odhiambo, Kevin Ochieng (Ali Abondo), George Midenyo (Kevin Omondi), Baldwin Ngwa ( Edwin Lavatsa)
That is not good for us but is better than aloss iknow after transfer we must work hard ithanks our coach and players for working hard first round.
At least now we can see that we are heading somewhere .we need to improve on our attacking and midfield for now the league is wide open .God bless kogalo.
For once we dominated but were unlucky to draw. Kudos to all the GM family members for being there for the team in good and bad times. Now’s the time to look back and see where the gaps are and fill them.
We are greatful for the spirited effort of our dedicated boys. So far kogalo is proving its worthyness. Lets pray and give absolute condusive environment to the entire Gor family for the success we all anticipate
We want to see Gor winning,anything less is distressing.
#AFC loses, #GorMahia draws
– can someone go 2 court
already so these clubs be
banned 4 lowering standards
of football in KEnya.
This is the coach we wanted! He looks in control! The future is bright for our very own k’ogalo!
THE MATCH WAS GREAT GIVE THE COACH MORE TIME TO WORK ONTHE TEAM
The team is definately on the right path ….. with the few holes that the coach has identified, if plugged, then we will be contenders for some trophies this year !!
AFC and Gor Mahia are the biggest markets in Kenya Sports arena for a long time to come.Their fans need to establish diplomatic relations and begin benefiting from each other.War is not the answer.Among the fans are doctors,lawyers,musicians, administrators,writers,poets and play writers,actors and actresses,and hip hop artists. The fans need to think out of the box and begin to benefit from the common life style that these two great teams enjoy.
To Western Stima a draw against Gor Mahia is a big win while to us that is as good as a loss considering we were the hosts.
The result is now water under the bridge and we should focus on our next game on 23rd June against Stima. They are already preparing for us. Coach Zdravko, playing Western Stima in Bukhungu on a rainy June afternoon is not anything you have seen in West Africa. You have one month to prepare. Prepare extremely well and help K’Ogalo shake off our poor away record.
Kevin Omondi and Edwin Lavatsa need to rediscover their shooting instincts. With good preparations, this title is still within our grasp.
lakini ilikuwa draw,but it was agreat game im happy the lads are giving their best and the coach & his assistant are also working things out.my friend our!our in-laws were realy out-played by batoto bamungu(sofapaka).and i realy thanx k’ogalo fans who were there(nyayo)to witnes how ingwe is falling;na bado!we realy rallied behind sofapaka.something which they were not happy abt.they were spoiling for afight and were nt ready for that.since our game ended in a 0-0 draw and peacefuly.So let them get alife!
Congrats team for the brave fightback in the first leg. I must say the fitness levels looked good yesterday.
Now we get back to the annoying business of signing mediocre players. Please don’t sign anyone who will be benched. It’s better to give the players we have salary increments for motivation.
If there is one painful lesson our club should have learnt mid last season and at the beginning of this one, it is about bringing too many average players on board. They come in and temporarily derail promising talents like Akumu, Lavatsa, Kevin etc.. yet at the end of the day we always go back to our best young talents.
I hope it is the coach who will recruit any new player(s).
There some days a team just dont find goals. This can be evidenced in European leagues when a team had the most shots on goal with not going over the line. I liked the passion of our coach. There was a point in time when he was standing 3 meters in to the field unknowingly urging the players to try harder. Could any Mluhya fan say that this was impunity. I hear the ngweno team was beaten by Sopa Paka which Gor beat in March………..hahahaha.
‘Kogalo boomaye!’This quote is borrowed from Ali against George Foreman in Zaire.Even though Kogalo did not floor Stima, the rope-adope seems to be over!Kogalo was more aggressive right from the get go.If only they can add fun,pleasure and tricks while on the field, we are in for the greatest entertainment of all times.Let the boys enjoy what they are doing for a change!Create some goofey moves and fans will go crazy! I love it when the ball is crossed from the wings and hit hard into the goal by the center foward.
There’s a time for everything, the bench has changed and the team is transforming. Let us do our best as football fans. Keep the spirit and look at the positive side of things. Our boys need motivation and whatever we write here matters alot. You all know where we have come from and how people thought about us when we were at the bottom of the table. Give glory to God and thanks to everyone who participated in the change.
Let us wait for second leg and do our best.
Well tried team, am sure bench will work on the weak areas to before 2nd leg commences.
Nyamweya and FKF seems to be playing a strange role at Ingwe, since when does FKF appoint a committee to run a team, and postphone one of their games due to administrative issues. Why didn’t he help out Rangers? Isn’t this favouritism?
Just visited the GM official website, Its looks good. Do we hama?
Office, we need to play top 8 against AFC Lepards (Ingwe). Can we fasttrack all the outstanding issues to enable the match be played in Nyayo Stadium?
Chairman, A Rachier, can you please do something to enable SSMB and KPL to allow Gor Mahia to acce facilities of Nyayo or Kasarani Stadiums?
We are convinced that SSMB are losing lots revenue from matches involving Gor Mahia and from their body languages SSMB are eager to allow the team to use the stadiums.
We all know that stadiums are meant for sporting activities and banning Gor Mahia will drastically affect the SSMB income from the use of these facicilities.
Below is the letter from KPL:
RE: POSTPONEMENT OF TOP 8 KNOCKOUT MATCH ON MAY 20, 2012 GOR MAHIA FC VS AFC LEOPARDS SC
As noted in the attached letter Gor Mahia FC have not yet complied to the letter banning them from the use of SSMB facilities and following consultations with the KPL Stadia Safety and Security Committee due to safety and security reasons, we are left with no suitable venue for hosting such a high risk match and therefore postpone the match to a later date which will be communicated to you.
The first Top 8 Knockout semi-final match between SonySugar vs Ulinzi Stars scheduled for Wednesday May 23, 2012 is therefore subsequently postponed until further notice.
Yours faithfully,
—
Jack Oguda I Chief Executive Officer I Kenyan Premier League Limited
P.O Box 5350, Nairobi, 00506 Kenya I Telephone: (254) 20 4442070/2
Fascimile: (254) 20 4442075 I Mobile: (254) 722 741411
Email: md@kpl.co.ke I Website: http://www.kpl.co.ke
Now that the Super 8 match is continously being postponed because SSMB and SS have beef with GM do we still have to play the three matches to get 1 million bob? Since we can get this money through get collections and the tournament only offers marketing to SS could we give it a miss?
@14 Dan ask why they can play the derby in a empty stadium. My take is that they can only raise the cash to fund the tournament from our “MASHEMAJI DERBY”. The Oguda’s of KPL knows very well that it is their only opportunity to reap profit and as such they will postpone it even up to next year as long as the tournament has no deadline pressure.
Our EC should bother less with SSMB and SS at the moment and concentrate with our main focus of collecting the maximum possible points in the second leg and see if we can lift the coveted trophy since it is within our reach.
Let AFC beg for the lifting of the ban because they are the home team in the second leg of KPL derby.
Dan, are you serious they have post poned again the super 8 match? Guys are prepared to be there early, kindly let us know.
Oduori..as for FKF playing a role at Ingwe i’m not surprised, if anything you even saw the Media hiding their(Ingwe) physical fights in the court.
@Kassam, it’s there on futaa.com amd michezoafrika.com. As @Jabilo says the plot is to have the derby played at all costs to raise money. The money is supposed to fund the KPL U19 in August. We all know that the other teams make the tournament to incur losses since they cannot even attract enough funds to cater for the costs of organising a single match. Poor FKA, relying on two teams out of 16 to generate money at all. Maybe they should ask for orders from above so that the match can be played at Nyayo whether SSMB like it or not.
There is a lot in the FKF-efusi shenanigan THAT meets the eye. Who does not see that FKF were only saving efusi from a thumping by Zico?
It is interesting to note that K’Ogalo fans were at Nyayo yesterday to cheer “our Humphrey Mieno who is on loan at Sofapaka”!
@Dan I support your sentiments. Why tire our boys, risking injuries for some cash prize that we can raise in one league match? This is a match we should skip and concentrate on what is worth the sweat or if not then use it to try a yet-to-be-formed Gor Mahia under-17 side.
We played well. I hope after the long June break we will not lose form. I still believe we can win the league this year but this will depend on our form come second leg.
Yes Dan, i agree with the other part of getting orders from above. If anything what real value does the ssmb add to especially nyayo stadium? Yes it is managed but do we see any vision to maybe fit in some seats? Talk of vip and there you are, hard dry concrete. Some order should be given for the match so we get over with! Otherwise the hooligans must now appreciate the magnitude of their actions! By the way do you people take note of the horrible bhangh smoking at the stadia?
Admin a point of correction. Moses Otieno and Yusuf Juma did not play coz i did not see jerzey 30 & 7, i stand to be corrected.
It is not just bhang smoking. The other day some three men clad in K’Ogalo jerseys turned up to watch efusi against Tusker at Mbaraki…Of-course they were met with chants of “watu waende Nakuru” (where Gor was playing Ulinzi).
It is like these three men had anticipated that reception and were prepared: I could not believe my eyes when they pulled out a 3 litre bottle of “distilled water” from a black polythene bag and this they generously shared with the thirsty efusi fans from Nairobi. Soon those chants of watu waende Nakuru became “watu waje kwa wingi”. Next all those who had partaken of the drink were hurling unprintable adjectives at the referee to the dismay of parents who had brought their little ones along.
http://www.gormahiafc.co.ke is the official GM Website lets crossover
THAT IS ACTUALLY WHAT WE WANTED TO SEE IN KOGALO MAHIA AKA SIRKAL.AM OPTIMISTIC TO SEE GOR MAHIA DOES ALL THAT ARE POSSIBLE IN FOOTBALL.WISH YOU WELL KOGALO
I have tried to key into the new website but this is the reply I get: “Thank you for contacting us. We will be in touch with you very soon”.
My question is how soon is “very soon” if I have been waiting for this ‘TOUCH’ since morning? It is frustrating.
I believe and know that Gor is likely to finish in the top three by the end of the league.push wazee