{"id":16496,"date":"2020-11-15T22:23:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T22:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=16496"},"modified":"2020-11-16T04:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:23:00","slug":"muguna-plays-but-harambee-stars-dimmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/muguna-plays-but-harambee-stars-dimmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Muguna plays but Harambee Stars dimmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kenyapage.net\/football\/images\/stars-moroni.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"484\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia skipper Kenneth Muguna was deployed as a substitute. But his efforts failed to yield a result for Harambee Stars whose hopes of qualifying for the 2021 AFCON have all but collapsed. Comoros dimmed Kenya 2-1 in Moroni on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Other former Gor Mahia players in action were David Owino &#8220;Calabar&#8221; who replaced Samuel Olwande in the line-up as well as Lawrence Juma who replaced off-color Eric Johana.<\/p>\n<p>El Fardou Ben gave the home side the lead in the 21st minute, but Cliff Nyakeya restored parity for Kenya in the 36th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Faiz Mattoir hit the winner for Comoros in the 49th minute and they held out to claim the three points that takes them top of Group &#8216;G&#8217; with eight points, five ahead of Kenya who remain in third place with three points.<\/p>\n<p>Muguna made his appearance in the 41st minute, replacing Lawrence Juma. His impact was immediate as he put Timbe through for a shot on goal but the effort was deflected for a corner.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya have yet to win a match in this series of qualifiers, something that has never happened. Kenya now needs to beat Egypt in Nairobi and beat Togo in Lome to stand any chance of qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>The golden boy yet again was former Gor Mahia youth ace Clifford Nyakeya who is arguably the best Kenya player in this campaign. It was his efforts that yielded a crucial goal that helped Kenya snatch a point against Egypt in Cairo for the first time ever. He worked hard to extract the ball from an Egyptian defender before passing to Olunga for an easy tap in.<\/p>\n<p>Stars had been promised Ksh 5 million by FKF chairman Nick Mwendwa if they won the match.<\/p>\n<h2>Video Highlights<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jurgo_ZC6Vo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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\/muguna-plays-but-harambee-stars-dimmed\/\"\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 skipper Kenneth Muguna was deployed as a substitute. But his efforts failed to yield a result for Harambee<\/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-16496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496","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=16496"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16504,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions\/16504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}