{"id":15212,"date":"2019-09-27T01:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2019-09-27T01:53:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T01:53:41","slug":"gor-mahia-vs-usm-alger-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-vs-usm-alger-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia vs USM Alger Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/vs-alger-19b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia face a tall order as they try to qualify for the 2019-2020 Africa champions league group stage. Having lost the first leg 4-1, Kogalo needs to win by a score of 3-0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cWe all saw what happened in the first leg,  we can\u2019t defeat USM with the kind of football we played today.\u00a0 We  played well in the first half but come the second half things were  really different. I will talk to talk to my players about it,\u201d told  Polack to Citizen Sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nUSM Alger will start parking the bus as soon as they land at JKIA. They \nwill also apply the typical cynical Gor Mahia will need to be ingenious.\n Coach Steve Polack was unhappy with his side&#8217;s display against KCB last\n weekend.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cMy plan is to guide them not to concede a  goal in the whole match but try as much as possible to score goals, more  so in the first half. I understand clubs from the North Africa are used  to playing attacking football which can give us a lot of pressure to  defend as we attack, but will give our best,\u201d explained the tactician  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia are missing key players. But coach Polack is unperturbed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shafiq batambuze has a long term knee injury. Philemon Otieno is sidelined with a  long-term achilles injury, while Nicholas Kipkirui, Francis Afriye are  also out with injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have more than 23 players in the squad and apart from few players who are injured; we still have options,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeper Robert Mapigano, who had a nighmare first leg, is still optimistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n&#8220;They defeated us in the first leg, what makes it hard for us to do the \nsame? We have what it takes to get the 3-0 needed to qualify for the \nnext stage. It will need more work on the pitch, every player has to \ngive more than 100% and if we do so, I am sure we will make it.&#8221;\n\n<\/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-vs-usm-alger-preview\/\"\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 face a tall order as they try to qualify for the 2019-2020 Africa champions league group stage. Having<\/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":[617,548],"class_list":["post-15212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2019-2020-caf-champions-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-usm-alger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212","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=15212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15215,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15212\/revisions\/15215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}