{"id":15121,"date":"2019-08-31T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15121"},"modified":"2019-08-31T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T17:10:29","slug":"gor-mahia-blast-tusker-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-blast-tusker-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia blast Tusker 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gor Mahia started the 2019-2020 Kenya Premier League on a brilliant note when they hammared Tusker by a score of 5-2 at Kisumu on Saturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional Reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defending champions Gor Mahia started their campaign for a 19th \nKenyan Premier League title with an emphatic 5-2 win over Tusker at Moi \nStadium in Kisumu on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hotly contested \nmatch that attracted a sizeable crowd saw Gor Mahia score its first goal\n through Nicholas Kipkirui in the first half, before Kenneth Muguna, \nBoniface Omondi, Charles Momanyi added four more in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tusker striker Boniface Muchiri scored both of his side&#8217;s goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s coach Steven Polack lauded his charges for the exemplary performance during the team&#8217;s opening match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He acknowledged the few mistakes made in the first half that were, however corrected in the second half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\n am proud of the game, my players have played well because the match was\n tough. It took us a while before changing to a physical game that had \nus score four more goals during the second half,&#8221; said coach Polack.<\/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-blast-tusker-5-2\/\"\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 started the 2019-2020 Kenya Premier League on a brilliant note when they hammared Tusker by a score of<\/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-15121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121","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=15121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15124,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15121\/revisions\/15124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}