{"id":10846,"date":"2018-06-03T18:56:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=10846"},"modified":"2018-06-04T03:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T03:25:28","slug":"gor-mahia-trounce-jeshi-la-kujenga-uchumi-3-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-trounce-jeshi-la-kujenga-uchumi-3-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia trounce Jeshi La Kujenga Uchumi 3-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/blackberry-jeshi-18.jpg\" width=\"569\" height=\"379\" \/><br \/>\nGor Mahia opened their 2018 Sportpesa Supercup campaign on a solid note, dismissing Zanzibari side Jeshi La Kujenga Uchumi 3-0<\/p>\n<p>Additional Reporting from Citizen Sports<br \/>\nGor Mahia FC began their Super Cup title defence with a 3-0 victory over Jeshi La Kujenga Uchumi (JKU) SC at Nakuru\u2019s Afraha Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from George \u2018Blackberry\u2019 Odhiambo, Godfrey Walusimbi and Meddie Kagere lifted the home side to a comfortable over the Zanzibar outfit.<\/p>\n<p>The champions will play fellow Kenyan Premier League (KPL) Kakamega Homeboyz who stunned Tanzanian giants Yanga SC 3-1 earlier at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>Odhiambo was in fine form, terrorizing the visiting defence and won a penalty in the 20th minute but striker Ephrem Guikan failed to put it away as his tame effort was pushed out by the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>The winger then took matters into his own hands, combining well with Francis Kahata in the 29th minute to fire home the opener.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/shakava-jeshi-18.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Walusimbi doubled his side\u2019s lead six minutes later with low left-footed strike from outside the box after Cercidy Okeyo had set him up.<\/p>\n<p>JKU could do little to slow down Dylan Kerr charges as they were starved of possession thus barely even tested K\u2019Ogalo custodian Shaban Odoji.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan champions slowed down proceedings in the second period, retaining possession as they looked to see off the win.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides brought in substitutes with Dylan Kerr profiting as Meddie Kagere added to the tally heading in the 82nd minute from a cross to kill off any hopes JKU had of salvaging anything from the game.<\/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-trounce-jeshi-la-kujenga-uchumi-3-0\/\"\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>Gor Mahia opened their 2018 Sportpesa Supercup campaign on a solid note, dismissing Zanzibari side Jeshi La Kujenga Uchumi 3-0<\/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":[555,556],"class_list":["post-10846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2018-sportpesa-supercup","tag-gor-mahia-vs-jeshi-la-kujenga-uchumi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846","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=10846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10848,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10846\/revisions\/10848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}