{"id":10954,"date":"2018-07-05T18:52:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=10954"},"modified":"2018-07-06T02:38:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T02:38:38","slug":"gor-mahia-beat-as-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-beat-as-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia beat AS Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/wafula-ports-18.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"358\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wafula in action against Ports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia overcame all their off the field and on the field issues to beat AS Port of Djibouti 2-0. In the process they qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2018 CECAFA club cup<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from goal.com<br \/>\nMomanyi buried a free header into the empty net after connecting a well-floated corner kick by Godfrey Walusimbi<br \/>\nGor Mahia booked a quarter-final place in the after beating AS Port of Djibouti 2-0 in the last Group B match on Thursday.<br \/>\nEphraim Guikan beat his marker to pace, but he Ivoirian\u2019s ferocious left-foot shot was well checked by AS Port custodian.<\/p>\n<p>A nice built up engineered by Innocent Wafula from the centre line result in a goal after Philemon Otieno put K\u2019Ogalo on the lead in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The body language of Gor Mahia players, however, revealed that something deep could be going on in the team with reports from Tanzania indicating that players are yet to be paid their allowances.<br \/>\nNone of Gor Mahia player, not even Otieno celebrated the goal as four players joined the scorer inside AS Port\u2019s box, part at Otieno on the back then they all walked to the centre line, with bent necks.<br \/>\nGor Mahia then took full control of the proceeding immediately after the opening goal with K\u2019Ogalo allowing AS Port to cross into their half just once 10 minutes after the opener.<br \/>\nBut despite the rare chances created by AS Port, Fred Naisenga directed his 26th-minute effort way off the mark after he picked a loose ball inside Gor Mahia\u2019s box.<br \/>\nCharles Momanyi doubled Gor Mahia\u2019s lead, just five minutes to the break and once again, there was no much celebration from K\u2019Ogalo players save for high-fives and little hugs here and there from a few teammates.<br \/>\nMomanyi buried a free header into the empty net after connecting a well-floated corner kick by Godfrey Walusimbi.<br \/>\nBoniface Oluoch kept Gor Mahia\u2019s two-goal lead with a nice save a minute into the break after AS Ports broke into the opponent\u2019s danger area.<br \/>\nGor Mahia came into the second half with more energy but the wistfulness in K\u2019Ogalo\u2019s attack.<\/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-beat-as-port\/\"\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 overcame all their off the field and on the field issues to beat AS Port of Djibouti 2-0.<\/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":[557,562],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2018-cecafa-club-cup","tag-gor-mahia-vs-as-port"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954","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=10954"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10959,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}