{"id":14633,"date":"2019-05-05T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=14633"},"modified":"2019-05-06T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:43:33","slug":"gor-mahia-held-by-western-stima-0-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-held-by-western-stima-0-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia held by Western Stima 0-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 516px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/tuyisenge-stima-19.jpg\" width=\"516\" height=\"344\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tuyisenge in action against Stima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the second consecutive match, Gor Mahia were held to a draw. This time it was Western Stima who held Kogalo 0-0 at Kisumu on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from goal.com<\/p>\n<p>The draw pushed Hassan Oktay\u2019s men to 60 points, five adrift of Sofapaka in second, but with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Oktay blamed his strikers and said they are going to work on their finishing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played well but wasted a lot of clear goal-scoring opportunities. This means we have to work on our finishing before the next match,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The champions, however, will have to do without former Harambee Stars Dennis Oliech who was withdrawn and rushed to the hospital at the hour mark after he got injured.<\/p>\n<p>Oliech was immediately replaced by Nicholas Kipkirui in a match that saw the two sides waste opportunities to score.<\/p>\n<p>ennedy Otieno was first to miss a clear chance of putting the power men ahead but failed to connect with Hubert Kopany\u2019s cross before Francis Kahata did the same in the 24 minute, failing to beat Samwel Odhiambo from a Philemon Otieno delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Despite K\u2019Ogalo dominating the match in the first half, the scores remained unchanged into the second half with Oliech and his substitute Kipkirui missing clear scoring chances.<\/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-held-by-western-stima-0-0\/\"\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>For the second consecutive match, Gor Mahia were held to a draw. This time it was Western Stima who held<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[590,136],"class_list":["post-14633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2018-2019-kenya-premier-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-western-stima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14633","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14641,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14633\/revisions\/14641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}