{"id":15699,"date":"2020-02-12T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15699"},"modified":"2020-02-13T03:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:19:40","slug":"gor-mahia-held-by-western-stima-1-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-held-by-western-stima-1-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia held by Western Stima 1-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/samuel-stima-20.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Onyango in action against Stima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s 2019-2020 league campaign once again veered off track when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Western Stima at Kisumu on Wednesday. Gor Mahia&#8217;s goal was scored by Clifford Miheso. But disaster had stuck earlier in the 10th minute when Joash Onyango was sent off for fouling Benson Omalla. Which means Gor Mahia had to play most of the match with 10 men.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gor Mahia Wednesday settled for a 1-1 draw with Western Stima in a Kenyan Premier League match at Moi Stadium, Kisumu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Both sides finished the match with 10 men in the fiercely contested clash after Joash Onyango (Gor) and Oramchan Villa (Stima) were sent off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gor remain top with 45 points from 20 matches while Western Stima are still seventh with 32 points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe draw is okay considering we were playing most of the match with 10 men so I\u2019m quite okay with how the boys played after the red card,\u201d said Gor Mahia coach Steven Polack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m okay with the results as a draw is better than a loss,\u201d said Western Stima coach Salim Babu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The match was off to a slow start as neither side settled in the early exchanges.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gor suffered a setback in the 12th minute when their defender Joash Onyango was red carded after hacking down goal-bound teenage sensation Benson Omala.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Polack introduced Joachim Oluoch for Geoffrey Ochieng in the 18th minute in what was a tactical move to counter the numerical disadvantage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After a goalless first half, K&#8217;Ogalo grabbed the lead against the run of play when Cliffton Miheso lobbed Stima goalkeeper John Mwangi in the 52nd minute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Babu responded by resting Chamberi Wankuru for Henry Onyango tow minutes later. And Stima got the equaliser in the 65th minute through Villa who beat Gor keeper Bonface Oluoch with a low shot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Stima\u2019s goal irked Gor supporters as they argued that Villa was offside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI believe the officials were not fair enough in today\u2019s game but we can do nothing but accept the outcome,\u201d said Polack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Villa turned from hero to villain when he was sent off for a nasty sliding tackle on Gor midfielder Lawrence Juma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gor had a late chance to win the game but Juma shot straight at Mwangi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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-held-by-western-stima-1-1-2\/\"\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&#8217;s 2019-2020 league campaign once again veered off track when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Western<\/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":[635,136],"class_list":["post-15699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2019-2020-kenya-premier-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-western-stima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699","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=15699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15703,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15699\/revisions\/15703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}