{"id":1218,"date":"2012-11-18T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2012-11-18T00:44:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T00:44:24","slug":"gor-mahia-edge-afc-leopards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-edge-afc-leopards\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia edge AFC Leopards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/omondi-afc-cup-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"232\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>After handing perennial rivals AFC Leopards a\u00a0 2-1 defeat in their Saturday 17 November FKF Cup match, Gor Mahia have qualified for the finals of the tournament, where they are set to meet the winner in the match between Tusker and Sofapaka FC, set for play on Sunday 18. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match kicked off with each side riding the ball towards the other\u2019s dock. However, it was Gor who were first to score, after a fast break by Edwin Lavatsa, who had come in as a ninth minute substitute for Dan Sserunkuma ended with Kevin Omondi sending the ball into the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>The teams went into the half time break with the Gor Mahia leading 1-0, but with AFC bearing the better ball possession of 57% against 43%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second half<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seven minutes into the second half, Joseph Njuguna sent a brilliant shot into the box, finding captain Moses Odhiambo in a shooting position. Odhiambo then sent it into the net as AFC appealed for an offside call, which was not awarded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consolation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With ten minutes to the final whistle, Charles Okwemba, found a good ball in the box, which he aptly drove into the net<\/p>\n<p>The match ended with Gor bearing a one-goal advantage over AFC.<\/p>\n<p>En the semifinals, Gor edged out Borabu Chiefs, and Muhoroni Youth.<\/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-edge-afc-leopards\/\"\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>Courtesy of futaa.com After handing perennial rivals AFC Leopards a\u00a0 2-1 defeat in their Saturday 17 November FKF Cup match,<\/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-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","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=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}