{"id":14760,"date":"2019-06-07T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=14760"},"modified":"2019-06-07T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T22:25:50","slug":"philemon-kahata-in-action-as-kenya-beats-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/philemon-kahata-in-action-as-kenya-beats-madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Philemon, Kahata in action as Kenya beats Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kenyapage.net\/football\/images\/kahata-philemeon-joash.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s Philemon Otieno was once again deployed at full back while Francis Kahata was in midfield on Friday in Paris as Kenya beat Madagascar 1-0. Former Kogalo captain Musa Mohamed also started in central defence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of former Kogalo players started on the bench including.  Joash Onyango, David Owino,  Eric Ouma, Anthony Akumu. The match was played at Stade Robert Boban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal came in the 64th minute when captain Victor Wanyama converted from the spot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madagascar were the better side in the first half and had the first good attempt at goal:  Andriamatsino Charles, saw his shot came off the bar in the 22nd minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madagascar should have opened the scoring in the 42nd minute when goalkeeper Patrick Matasi conceded a penalty after fouling  Martin Tsilavina . Matasi redeemed himself by saving the penalty from  Andriamatsino  . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second galf,  coach Migne decided to rest Musa Mohammed for Joseph Okumu, while Michael Olunga and Eric Ouma came on John Avire and Eric Johannah, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madagascar are making their first appearance at AFCON. Kenya has been there 5 times (1972, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2004). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Starting XI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18. Patrick Matasi (GK), 20. Philemon Otieno, 3. Abud Omar, 5. Brian Mandela, 2. Musa Mohammed, 12. Victor Wanyama, 21. Dennis Odhiambo, 10. Erick Johanna, 7. Ayub Timbe, 11. Francis Kahata and 9. John Avire.<\/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\/philemon-kahata-in-action-as-kenya-beats-madagascar\/\"\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 Philemon Otieno was once again deployed at full back while Francis Kahata was in midfield on Friday in<\/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":[125,72,126,581],"class_list":["post-14760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-francis-kahata","tag-harambee-stars","tag-musa-mohamed","tag-philemon-otieno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760","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=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14765,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions\/14765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}