{"id":11621,"date":"2018-12-02T14:16:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=11621"},"modified":"2018-12-03T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:12:07","slug":"gor-mahia-go-down-to-kariobangi-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-go-down-to-kariobangi-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia go down to Kariobangi Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/shakava-sharks-18.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"449\" \/><br \/>\nGor Mahia&#8217;s sub par form continued on Sunday when they lost their Super Cup title to Kariobangi Sharks, going down 1-0.<br \/>\nAdditional reporting from the Nation<br \/>\nA youthful Kariobangi Sharks side beat Gor Mahia to the 2018\/2019 Kenyan Premier League (KPL) Super Cup glory with a hard-fought 1-0 victory in the season opener at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks scored the only goal of the match after 52 minutes when Ugandan import George Abege teed up substitute Sydney Lokale who beat his markers before sending in a delightful match into the back of the net with Gor Mahia custodian Boniface Oluoch well beaten.<\/p>\n<p>Gor, four time Super Cup champions, were stung into action by Lokale\u2019s strike and launched series of attacks in search of an equalizer but Kenya under-23 international goal keeper Brian Bwire proved to be impregnable between the sticks.<\/p>\n<p>Bwire acrobatically parried out Francis Kahata\u2019s left foot in swinger that seemed destined for the top left corner. The former Kakamega High shot stopper then punched out Ephrem Guikan\u2019s flick for a fruitless corner.<\/p>\n<p>Sharks\u2019 Michael Bodo hacked down Guikan, who had come on as Bernad Ondiek\u2019s replacement on 50th minute mark, gifting Gor Mahia with a free kick in a promising position. Shaffik Batambuze took up the ball but his effort was too tame for an impressive Bwire in Sharks\u2019 goal.<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019Ogalo\u2019s interim coach Zedekiah \u201cZico\u201d Otieno handed new signing Nicholas Kipkurui his debut but the diminutive striker was easily pocketed by the combative pair of Geoffrey Lemu and Tom Teka at the heart of Sharks\u2019 defence.<\/p>\n<p>New Gor Mahia coach Turkish-Cypriot Hassan Oktay watched from the stands and had a word with the team at the halftime break.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/jaro-hassan.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"762\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new coach was at the stadium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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-go-down-to-kariobangi-sharks\/\"\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&#8217;s sub par form continued on Sunday when they lost their Super Cup title to Kariobangi Sharks, going down<\/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-11621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621","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=11621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11624,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions\/11624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}