{"id":15237,"date":"2019-10-06T14:40:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15237"},"modified":"2019-10-08T02:46:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T02:46:46","slug":"gor-mahia-edge-zoo-kericho-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-edge-zoo-kericho-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia edge Zoo Kericho 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/boni-zoo-19.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Scorer: Boniface Omondi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor Mahia earned a hard fought 1-0 win over Zoo Kericho on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The all important goal came from Boniface Omondi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional Reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boniface Omondi scored the lone goal as champions Gor Mahia defeated Zoo FC 1-0 in their Kenyan Premier League match at the Afraha Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win saw the defending champions make it four wins out of four and maintain their lead at the top of the table with 12 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>K&#8217;Ogalo<\/em>&nbsp;were made to wait until the last 10 minutes of the game before Omondi received a well weighted cross from Kennedy Otieno inside the danger zone and side stepped his markers, and fired a powerful shot that was first blocked by Zoo custodian Martin Elungat, before it rolled into the empty net in the 81st minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gor head coach Steve Pollack admitted that his charges were sluggish in the first half and praised the Zoo defence for frustrating the Gor strikers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter the halftime pep talk, the boys heeded my advice and this changed the way they played in the last 15 minutes. However, I am happy they laboured to score a single goal and that to me is satisfying,&#8221; said coach Pollack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his part, Zoo coach Herman Iswekha blamed lack of concentration by his defenders in the final quarter of the match.<\/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-edge-zoo-kericho-1-0\/\"\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 earned a hard fought 1-0 win over Zoo Kericho on Sunday. The all important goal came from Boniface<\/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":[395],"class_list":["post-15237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-vs-zoo-kericho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","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=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15246,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions\/15246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}