{"id":12996,"date":"2019-01-15T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=12996"},"modified":"2019-01-15T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T02:51:00","slug":"oktay-we-shall-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/oktay-we-shall-qualify\/","title":{"rendered":"Oktay: We shall qualify"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/oktay-gesture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"388\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia coach Hassan Oktay has sought to allay the fears of fans who were less than happy with the performance on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep cam, we shall qualify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is Gor Mahia coach Hassan Oktay message to nervous K\u2019Ogalo fans ahead of their Caf Confederation Cup playoff reverse fixture against Cameroon\u2019s New Stars de Douala at Omnisports Stadium in Limbe, Cameroon next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan champions carry a slim and tricky 2-1 lead they registered in the first leg tie played at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani on Sunday afternoon. They need to avoid a defeat or force a scoring draw to book a slot in the group stage whose participants pocket Sh27 million.<\/p>\n<p>A section of home supporters booed the Turkish-Cypriot\u2019s tactical substitutions minutes after the Cameroonians had cancelled Gor Mahia\u2019s early lead. The 42-year-old tactician withdrew speedy winger Boniface Omondi, who had been a constant threat, for Samuel Onyango on 76 minutes, before pulling out a jaded Francis Mustafa for Erisa Ssekisambu and finally brought in George \u201cBlackberry\u201d Odhiambo for Francis Kahata.<\/p>\n<p>The changes infuriated the fans who openly booed the coach and carried on the chatter on various social media platforms questioning his tactical cognizance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts good pressure from fans but sometimes you know we\u2019ve to control what we see,\u201d Oktay defended his changes.<br \/>Related Content<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won, it\u2019s a good feeling, we shall fix the defence because we conceded from the set piece again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oktay was impressed by Charles Momanyi and Joachim Oluoch\u2019s rare partnership at the back in the absence of regulars Harun Shakava and Joash Onyango.<\/p>\n<p>The latter two are serving suspension from the Confederation of African Football (Caf) pending their case at the Caf Disciplinary board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tell you what, we shall qualify. I believe we are good enough and strong to win it. No one should worry, we shall go there and dominate the game as well, this team (New Stars) plays well away than at home,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandese forward Jacques Tuyisenge, who grabbed the winner with three minutes left, has echoed the coach\u2019s remarks urging fans to support them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must reach the group stage,\u201d said the 27-year-old. \u201cThey scored an away goal which gives them confidence but we shall dismantle their plans by scoring early to put them under more pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019Ogalo, who host Mount Kenya United in a rescheduled league match on Wednesday at Kasarani stadium, plan to jet off to the West African nation on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/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\/oktay-we-shall-qualify\/\"\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>\u00a0 Gor Mahia coach Hassan Oktay has sought to allay the fears of fans who were less than happy with<\/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-12996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996","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=12996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13000,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12996\/revisions\/13000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}