{"id":15100,"date":"2019-08-25T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15100"},"modified":"2019-08-25T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T16:15:23","slug":"gor-mahia-hammer-aigle-noir-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-hammer-aigle-noir-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia hammer Aigle Noir 5-1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/kipkirui-aigle-19.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Two goal hero: Nicholas Kipkirui<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia are through to the 1st round of the CAF Champions League after an impressive 5-1 win over Aigle Noir of Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Reporting from Citizen Sport<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia marched on to round one of the CAF Champions League in style after burying clueless Burundian side Aigle Noir 5-1 at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani\u00a0 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The match was delicately poised having drawn 0-0 in the first leg meet in Bujumbura\u00a0 a fortnight ago but every pundit expected K\u2019Ogalo to carry the day at home and they did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Kenneth Muguna led from the front giving K\u2019Ogalo the lead in the 10th minute, and six minutes later, former Zoo Kericho man Nicholas Kipkirui widened the advantage for Steven Pollack\u2019s men, scoring from a corner, before adding another\u00a0 in the 38th minute, heading in from a throw ball.<\/p>\n<p>In a frantic first half that saw Kipkirui claim a brace, Boniface Omondi missed to score from a one-on-one situation with the opposing goalie while Gor\u2019s shot stopper David Mapigano had to be attended to after colliding with striker Kennedy Seburiba.<\/p>\n<p>Gor continued from where they\u2019d left in the second half, Dickson Ambundo putting his name on the score-sheet with the fourth, in the 68th minute, before Boniface Omondi added another.<\/p>\n<p>Joash Onyango was a cog in Gor\u2019s \u00a0defence with newly promoted player from the youth team Tobias Otieno showing his worth in the defence.<\/p>\n<p>Mapigano was untested in the second half but the laxity cost him in the 79th minute with Aigle striker Jospin Nshmirimana tapping home a simple cross to make it 5-1<\/p>\n<div id=\"adform-outstream\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>With six minutes to go, Ernest Wendo was introduced for Lawrence Juma in the midfield. The match ended 5-1 in aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Gor will now meet in round one, the aggregate winner between USM Algers of Algeria and Niger\u2019s Sonidep who collide later today from 1900hrs.<\/p><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-hammer-aigle-noir-5-1\/\"\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 are through to the 1st round of the CAF Champions League after an impressive 5-1 win over Aigle<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-15100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100","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=15100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15103,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15100\/revisions\/15103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}