{"id":10936,"date":"2018-07-01T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T13:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=10936"},"modified":"2018-07-01T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T16:57:00","slug":"gor-mahia-held-2-2-by-rayon-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-held-2-2-by-rayon-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia held 2-2 by Rayon Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia gave up a 2-0 halftime lead and ended up settling for a 2-2 draw with Rayon Sports of Rwanda in their opener for the 2018 CECAFA club cup. Gor Mahia&#8217;s goals came from Jacque Tuyisenge in the 33rd minute and Humphrey Mieno on the 4oth minute. Fatigue seemed to be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from CapitalFM<\/p>\n<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 1- Skipper Pierre Kwizera scored in the 89<sup>th<\/sup> minute as Rwandese champions Rayon Sport rallied from two goals down to hold record Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia to a 2-2 draw in their opening game of the CECAFA Kagame Cup in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019Ogalo looked to be on their way to victory after Jacques Tuyisenge and Humphrey Mieno scored in the first half both off Ephraim Guikan assists, but the Rwandese champions came off better in the second half and rallied for a point.<\/p>\n<p>Malian forward Ismaila Diarra pulled one back from the penalty spot before Kwizera popped up with the equalizer just a minute to full time.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Dylan kerr fielded his strongest squad for the tie, only switching in defense where Charles Momanyi started ahead of Joash Onyango while at right back, Innocent Wafula was preferred for Philemon Otieno who was rested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Gukian assists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ephraim Guikan, handed the duty of filling the boots left by Meddie Kagere who left the club for Tanzania\u2019s Simba showed he is just about doing that when he laid in the assist for the opener.<\/p>\n<p>His good work on the ball saw him earn space and slice a low cross which was duly tapped home by Tuyisenge. He created the second goal in same fashion, this time Mieno doing the duty of directing the ball on target.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gor seemed to have faded off in the second half and the Rwandese took advantage, Diarra who had missed an open chance in the first half scoring from the spot after Mieno\u2019s handball in the 63rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>They kept on the pressure and it bore fruit in the sunset minutes of the game when Kwizera finished off an assist from Kevin Muhire to share the spoils.<\/p>\n<p>Gor must now win their second group match on Tuesday against Burundi\u2019s Lydia Ludic to keep their hopes of progressing to the knockout stages alive.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/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-held-2-2-by-rayon-sports\/\"\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 gave up a 2-0 halftime lead and ended up settling for a 2-2 draw with Rayon Sports of<\/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-10936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936","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=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10938,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions\/10938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}