{"id":11653,"date":"2018-12-08T15:12:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T15:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2018-12-08T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:07:49","slug":"gor-mahia-lose-to-bandari-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-lose-to-bandari-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia lose to Bandari 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s 2018-2019 season started on a sour note as they went down 2-1 to Bandari at Mbaraki on Saturday. New signing Nicholas Kipkirui scored for Kogalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Champions Gor Mahia&#8217;s title defence got underway on a losing \nnote as they went down 2-1 away to Bandari in their opening SportPesa \nPremier League match at the Mbaraki Stadium, Mombasa on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Wardi and David Kingatua gave the dockers a 2-0 lead, before new signing Nicholas Kipkirui pulled a goal back for <em>K&#8217;Ogalo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\n it was not enough as Bandari, who finished in second place last season,\n held on for precious points leaving the champions to lick their wounds \nin a packed match watched by among others, Kenya Ports Authority \nmanaging director Daniel Mamduku.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dockers enjoyed \nthe early exchanges, while Gor Mahia, who were playing a few hours after\n arriving from Malawi, took control of the last quarter of the game when\n they literally camped at Bandari&#8217;s goalmouth in search of an elusive \nequaliser. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Wadri scored the match opener for \nBandari on the stroke of halftime via a firm header from a well weighted\n Yema Muama cross. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Kingatua made it 2-0 in the \n55th minute when he pounced on back pass by Philemon Otieno to \ngoalkeeper Boniface Oluoch to score from close range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor\n substitute and new signing Nicholas Kipkurui, who had just come in for \nFrancis Mustapha, scored the consolation goal for Gor Mahia in the 75th \nminute from a goalmouth melee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We dominated the game \nbut missed several clear scoring chances, while Bandari created only \nthree chances two of which they scored,&#8221; new Gor Mahia Turkish coach \nHassan Oktay said after the match <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bandari team manager\n Wilson Ogutu was however happy with the results, saying that they will \nbuild on this performance to ensure they achieve their target of wining \nthe league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We played as a team with players following\n the coaches instruction to the letter. We just want to build on this \ngoing forward,&#8221; Ogutu said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/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-lose-to-bandari-2-1\/\"\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 2018-2019 season started on a sour note as they went down 2-1 to Bandari at Mbaraki on Saturday.<\/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-11653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653","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=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11657,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions\/11657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}