{"id":15705,"date":"2020-02-15T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=15705"},"modified":"2020-02-15T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T18:40:10","slug":"polack-still-confident-of-retaining-kpl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/polack-still-confident-of-retaining-kpl-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Polack still confident of retaining KPL Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/team-20.jpg\" width=\"862\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite dropping crucial points in the last two league games, Gor Mahia coach Steve Polack remains confident that his side will retain the league title.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>I know we have not won in the last two matches but it is not true to say that it will be difficult for us to retain the league. We still have many matches and I&#8217;m only concentrating on my team not our opponents so that we can achieve our aim,\u201d Polack said to the Nation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Though Gor still sits top of the log, a win for Tusker (second) and Kakamega Homeboyz (third) next weekend would cut their lead to just a point.<\/p>\n<p>Polack rejected the idea that either he or the team is under pressure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI have no pressure because in football you can either get a win, draw or a loss. We have not won twice but there are many matches remaining, we still have a chance to redeem ourselves,\u201d added Polack.<\/p>\n<p>On the Western stima match, Polack said that the foul should not have been awarded because Omalla was offiside<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it was not a penalty because their player was already in an offside position,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the red card we were the better team, we had seized the game and were in cruise control, we had even taken the lead in the opening minutes, from my eyes, from everyone in the technical bench.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were the best side against XI\u00a0men but our game went down after the sending off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy with the way my players responded after going down to ten men, the desire, the fighting spirit and how they managed to keep the score at 1-0 before Stima scored in the 68th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have now realised it is not easy to play with ten men, it was tough for us after Onyango went off, and it is tough to play with fewer players\u00a0but I want to say I am happy for my team and very happy for the draw.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gor Mahia will play Naivas FC in the opening round of the Betway cup<\/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\/polack-still-confident-of-retaining-kpl-title\/\"\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>Despite dropping crucial points in the last two league games, Gor Mahia coach Steve Polack remains confident that his side<\/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-15705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705","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=15705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15707,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions\/15707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}