{"id":15283,"date":"2019-10-20T16:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15283"},"modified":"2019-10-22T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:41:51","slug":"gor-mahia-edge-sharks-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-edge-sharks-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia edge Sharks 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gor Mahia players yet again put aside their off the field issues to earn a hard fought 1-0 win over Kariobangi sharks at Afraha on Sunday <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Record Kenyan Premier League champions Gor Mahia left it late to\n celebrate Mashujaa Day with a 1-0 win over stubborn Kariobangi Sharks \nin a thrilling match at Afraha Stadium, Nakuru on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n 18-time champions were made to wait until stoppage time and it&#8217;s \nGhanaian Francis Afriyie, who came in for off-colour Ivorian Gnamien \nYikpe, who found the breakthrough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the match \npoised to end in a barren draw, another substitute Kennedy Otieno \nunleashed a volley from the right wing that came off the upright and the\n ball fell kindly for an unmarked Afriyie who rounded Sharks goalkeeper \nJohn Oyemba before slotting into an empty net. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very excited for scoring a goal in this match given that our performance was not at its best,\u201d said Afriyie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\n am happy my boys were sharper and aggressive in the last quarter. In \nfootball, the final whistle determines the winner and today we were made\n to wait until the last minute,&#8221; said Gor Mahia coach Steven Polack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A disappointed Kariobangi Sharks coach William Muluya claimed Afriyie scored from an offside<\/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-sharks-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 players yet again put aside their off the field issues to earn a hard fought 1-0 win over<\/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":[509],"class_list":["post-15283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-vs-kariobangi-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283","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=15283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15285,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283\/revisions\/15285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}