{"id":16589,"date":"2020-11-30T02:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=16589"},"modified":"2020-11-30T02:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:06:39","slug":"muguna-upbeat-about-gor-mahias-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/muguna-upbeat-about-gor-mahias-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Muguna upbeat about Gor Mahia&#8217;s chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/muguna-sofa-20.jpg\" width=\"764\" height=\"586\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite a below par performance in Kigali, Kenneth Muguna believes Kogalo have an excellent chance of moving to the next round of the 2020-2021 CAF Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting from the Nation<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia captain Kenneth Muguna believes the team is still in a position to qualify for the first round of the Caf Champions League even after losing the first leg of the preliminary round against APR of Rwanda on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The record champions were beaten 2-1 by the Rwandan giants at the Nyamirambo Stadium in Kigali. An own goal from K\u2019Ogalo central defender Andrew \u201cRoma\u201d Juma in the 61st minute handed victory to APR after Charles Momanyi \u2018s 27th minute header had canceled out Seifu Niyonzima\u2019s strike in the 10th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s travelling party jetted back in the country Sunday morning and will play Zoo Kericho on Wednesday in the Football Kenya Premier League (FKF-PL), before a return leg match against APR on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Muguna said even though the defeat was painful, their vital away goal will make the job a bit light at home but with a belief that each player fielded will give 110 percent performance on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not yet out of the competition because the away goal requires that we score in the return leg and avoid conceding. I urge my fellow players not to lose hope but enhance our preparations. We are still in the competition and still have a very big chance of qualifying for the next round,\u201d Muguna told Nation Sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey won at home and we can also do that here by even more goals,\u201d he added. Ugandan born South Sudan striker Tito Okello also  hailed his Gor team mates.<\/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-upbeat-about-gor-mahias-chances\/\"\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 a below par performance in Kigali, Kenneth Muguna believes Kogalo have an excellent chance of moving to the next<\/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":[701,457],"class_list":["post-16589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-2021-caf-champions-league","tag-kenneth-muguna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589","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=16589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16592,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions\/16592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}