Gor Mahia’s unbeaten march continues as they beat City Stars
Gor mahia beat Nairobi City stars 3-1 at the Nyayo stadium on saturday. Goals came from Meddie Kagere and Michael Olunga who scored twice.
City Stars showed a lot of poise and comfort on the ball, knocking the ball around confidently. But Gor Mahia showed early intent attacking from all angles. In the 18th minute, Nizigiyimana’s inviting cross aimed for Kagere instead was gathered by an alert Ronny Kagunzi who previously played for Gor Mahia.
Two minutes later it was the dangerous duo of Kagere and Olunga who combined well. Olunga weaved past several defenders before crossing to Kagere who scored only to be flagged offside.
Gor Mahia continued to press. In the 24th minute, Olunga picked up a pass from Musa Mohamed but his goalbound attempt was blocked.
The opening goal finally came in the 28th minute following good work from Abouba Sibomana who crossed to Kagere who scored with a brilliant header.
The second goal came in the 45th minute. This time it was Nizigiyimana who did the spadework, crossing to Michael Olunga who found the back of the net, soundly beating Ronny Kagunzi who had tried to beat Olunga to the ball thus leaving the goal wide open.
The third goal came via the penalty spot. City Stars defender John Amboko handled the ball following a shot from Meddie Kagere. Michael Olunga stepped forward and scored to put Gor Mahia up 3-0.
Haron Shakava had to leave the game with an injury. He was replaced by Ali Abondo.
Evergreen Ugandan Jimmy Bageya, also a former Gor Mahia player from almost 10 years ago, pulled one back for City stars to make the score 3-1.
Missing from the Gor Mahia bench was coach Frank Nuttall who has returned to Scotland to address family issues. Yet even in his absence, Gor Mahia displayed the typical fluid and precise passing and crossing that has characterized their game this season.
In his absence , Frank Ouna took over as coach. Ouna praised his charges after the match.
“We still have tough matches coming up…remember we have a derby against AFC Leopards…and thus we must maintain focus and continue to fight. Overall, we were the best team and deserved to win.” he said to goal.com
His opposite number, Gabriel “Kingi” Njoroge admitted that he lost to a better side.
“We are not heartbroken since I believe we gave it our best shot but Gor are a quality side. We kept them on their toes and remember they have just arrived back from a tough competition in the Cecafa tournament, so they are in great form. We shall keep on fighting by rectifying our mistakes.” he said to supersport.
Gor Mahia now have 55 points from 21 matches. Their goal difference is 38 which is twice as high as the second best team Tusker whose goal difference is 19.
Line-Up
Bonface Oluoch – Musa Mohamed – Karim Nizigiyimana – Abouba Sibomana – Innocent Wafula (24. Enock Agwanda 75′) – Collins Okoth – Harun Shakava (30. Ali Abondo 62′) – Meddie Kagere – Godfrey Walusimbi (9. Timothy Otieno 87′) – Michael Olunga – Ernest Wendo.
Unused Substitutes: David Juma – Bernard Odhiambo – Eric Ochieng – George Odhiambo.
Once again, we give back thanks and appreciation to the Almighty God for another sweet and well fought victory. To all Kogalo fans, let us all maintain the peace and love for our team Gor Mahia. Our target now is to try and take it unbeaten. Congratulations to the entire Kogalo fraternity.
5 points more and the league is over …..mitna.
Glory and Praise to thy name for the victory. I have faith in my Lord JESUS CHRIST that you will officially bequeth the 2015 glory on the 23/8/2015 infront of my shemko kwa derby
@Jakoyo…get your facts right…it’s not 5 more points.consult the table and do your maths correctly!!
Let us not put the cart before the horse!!
To jakoyo ligi uchukuliwa na 60 points where pipn win 12-14 games on average but if we win our next 2 games the ulinzi game will b the decider
What we do best. Inflict maximum pain.
NEXT.
so happy
Ulinzi stars while u were away, we came 11 pts closer to locking th trophy in th cabinet 4 gud. One game at a tym. NEXT
Ok, its a fact that our nearest competitor can achieve 65 points in case they win all their remaining seven fixtures, so having noted that we need 11 points to win the league-only 4 matches won statistically now at the moment wins the cup. That is in assumption all our competitors also win all their remaining games fellows…..so we are marching on.
Your assumption should take fixtures into consideration. Among the matches left are against Ulinzi too
Don’t remove a speck from your brother’s eye before you remove yours….unfortunately the Ingo’s/ AFC disease is catching up with us pretty fast. Our coach has boycotted his duties due to unpaid salaries
Sasa, mnanitafutia nini? when I start throwing punches back you start complain that am hitting hard
Is true that Nutal missed the game due to unpaid salary and allowances?
These are Ingwe mind games. Our coach is back and will be training with the players tomorrow.
This will be my last blog in this site. I have already moved to goal.com.
What is your handle there so that I can say hi from time to time
The coach had gone for holiday in Mombasa. He came back to Nairobi last evening and took his family to the airport this morning. He too attended the double header matches.
Bloggers should not be involved in mind games spread by Ingwe journalists and reporters that are always transferring Ingwe miseries to Gor Mahia. These are mind games and please confirm this by attend our training tomorrow or Tuesday to reconfirm the fact.
Let us join hands together to praise the most High God Almighty for what he has done to our beloved Club Mighty Gor Mahia K’Ogalo Gor mahono.Only JamigorI artical makes feel at home, if it’s true that Prof. Nattul is not on Strike due to unpaid Salaries!. Otherwise let the good work our TB and wonderful Players are doing may continued. Thanks Guys may Jesus Christ covered all of you with his Blood. Amen.