{"id":137,"date":"2011-04-07T12:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=137"},"modified":"2011-04-07T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T14:32:43","slug":"kpl-top-8-kogalo-sink-mathare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/kpl-top-8-kogalo-sink-mathare\/","title":{"rendered":"KPL Top 8: Kogalo sink Mathare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-top8-2011.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0 a well attended midweek match, Gor Mahia comprehensively outplayed the slum boys aka Mathare United to beat them 2-0 and sail into the semis of the newly inaugurated KPL top 8.<\/p>\n<p>A power blackout delayed the match for more than half an hour as fans waited calmly for the power to be restored. After a quiet first half Kogalo went on the attack. 20 minutes into the half, Tony Onyango latched onto a loose ball to score the first goal.<\/p>\n<p>The second goal came via a counter attack. The speedy Edwin Lavatsa made one of menacing runs and was fouled by a Mathare defender. Collins Okoth stepped up to take the resulting penalty and converted for a 2-0 score.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the all-expenses paid tournament by the KPL will  ultimately win a cash prize of Sh1 million. Teams participating are  those that finished in the top eight positions in last year\u2019s  Premiership.<\/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\/kpl-top-8-kogalo-sink-mathare\/\"\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>In\u00a0 a well attended midweek match, Gor Mahia comprehensively outplayed the slum boys aka Mathare United to beat them 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":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}