{"id":1048,"date":"2012-10-03T19:47:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T19:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2012-10-04T02:58:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T02:58:21","slug":"gor-mahia-edge-rangers-to-go-to-2nd-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-edge-rangers-to-go-to-2nd-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia edge Rangers to go to 2nd spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/abondo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of michezoafrika.com<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia on Wednesday kept alive their Tusker Premier League title hopes moving to second on the log with 49 points after cruising past relegation threatened Rangers FC with a 2-1 win courtesy of strikes from Ali Abondo and Rama Salim.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Gor Mahia moves to 49 points, two behind leaders Tusker (51) and a point above third placed AFC Leopards. All the top three teams have played 26 matches so far and with four matches to the end of the season, this proves to be a tight march to the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Moses Odhiambo fired the first warning with a good shot that was saved by Rangers custodian Omondi. Afterwards, a good buildup from Rangers in the third minute lacked a final touch after a great cross into Gor Mahia box by Ombasa.Dan Sserunkuma then made inroads into Rangers\u2019 box and won a corner that was taken by Moses Odhiambo and ended up as a goal kick.<\/p>\n<p>Gor then had two successive chances. First a corner was cleared in the 17th minute before a brilliant free kick by Ali Abondo. Keeper Omondi remained superb to keep away the danger.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Omondi came closer in the 28th minute with a free header but he missed target by inches as Gor Mahia intensified their attacks. Kevin Omondi would later pave way for Joseph \u201cPablo\u201d Njuguna.<\/p>\n<p>From a short corner, Ali Abondo\u2019s shot went past the hard working Rangers\u2019 keeper to give Gor Mahia the lead and send the green Nyayo Stadium into frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>In the 42nd minute, Rama Salim almost extended Gor Mahia\u2019s lead but his shot was well saved by the busy Omondi. In need of goals, Rangers coach Nandwa threw in striker Baldin Ngwa in place of Eric Ochieng. Two minutes to the break, Eric Muranda missed a glorious chance to level for Rangers after a blunder by Donald Mosoti almost cost Gor the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Two minutes after the break, Rangers won a corner from a deflected Eric Muranda shot. Former Gor captain Julius \u201cAwilo\u201d Owino sent a clever chip that beat Jerim Onyango for Rangers\u2019 equalizer.<\/p>\n<p>But this score line did not last long as a brilliant combination between Sserunkuma and Rama Salim yielded Gor Mahia\u2019s second goal in the 53rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant save by Jerim Onyango denied Eric Muranda from scoring in the 67th minute just a minute after coach nandwa had added more firepower to his attacks by bringing in Paul Odhiambo for Geoffrey Kataka.<\/p>\n<p>In the 78th minute, Baldin Ngwa was brought down at the edge of the box by Ivan Anguyo to earn Rangers a free kick.Muranda\u2019s free kick was cleared for a corner.The pressure at Gor Mahia ended when Ombasa was ruled offside.<\/p>\n<p>Logarusic\u2019s last dice was by bringing in Nicholas Auma for Rama Salim with five minutes remaining to the end of the match.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-edge-rangers-to-go-to-2nd-spot\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of michezoafrika.com Gor Mahia on Wednesday kept alive their Tusker Premier League title hopes moving to second on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}