{"id":15217,"date":"2019-09-29T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15217"},"modified":"2019-09-30T01:29:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T01:29:44","slug":"gor-mahia-eliminated-from-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-eliminated-from-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia eliminated from Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/joash_usm-19.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Joash Onyango in action against USM Alger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia were bundled out of the   2019-2020 champions league in unceremonious fashion. On Sunday they  lost 2-0 to USM Alger in the second leg of the 1st round at Kasarani<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dangerman Ahimen Mahious masterminded K&#8217;Ogalo&#8217;s exit after grabbing a brace with his opening two chances to kill off the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, the hosts curved out nine chances in the first-half, six of these clear-cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But none of these could trouble visiting custodian Smail Mansouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahious&#8217; first goal came just after four minutes courtesy of an improvised header after a quickly taken throw in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> But how he managed to reach to the ball with his head and direct into the net ahead of Gor goalkeeper Fredrick Odhiambo&#8217;s stretched arms, will perhaps be a matter to be discussed in Gor coach Steve Polack&#8217;s post mortem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleven minutes later, Mahious was again on target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time around, he cheekily evaded an offside trip laid out for him by the hosts&#8217; defence, which was marshalled by Harambee Stars defender Joash Onyango.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereafter, he easily controlled a forty yard pass with with the first touch, and then fired a bullet shot that easily beat Odhiambo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, Gor needed seven goals to progress, but couldn&#8217;t find even one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, Nicholas Kipkurui, their most potent attacker this season, missed a one-on-one chance with Mansouri with the latter coming out on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dickson Ambundo then fired narrowly wide with a half-chance and then captain Kenneth Muguna twice saw his shots saved by a relaxed Mansouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor continued dominating in the second half with Kipkurui, Onyango and Muguna coming close, before the match was briefly stopped as fans protested the presence of the arriving police officers by throwing missiles on the pitch.<\/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-eliminated-from-champions-league\/\"\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 were bundled out of the 2019-2020 champions league in unceremonious fashion. On Sunday they lost 2-0 to USM<\/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-15217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217","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=15217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15220,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions\/15220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}