{"id":17219,"date":"2020-01-26T03:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T03:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=17219"},"modified":"2021-02-14T03:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T03:59:23","slug":"2014-caf-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/gor-mahia-in-africa\/2014-caf-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 CAF Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"auto-style6\">First Round<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"auto-style6\">1st Leg (Nairobi)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"auto-style6\">Gor Mahia 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Esperance 3<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\">Gor Mahia&#8217;s first goal came via a penalty scored by\u00a0 Dan Sserunkuma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\">The penalty came Kevin Omondi made a mazy run from the left flank and was fouled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\">The second goal was header from Haron Shakava.<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\">However Gor Mahia gifted Esperance 3 goals due to basic defensive errors.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/shakava-soar.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shakava soared above Esperance to score<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"auto-style6\">2nd Leg (Tunis)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"auto-style6\">Gor Mahia 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Esperance 5<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\">Gor Mahia were quite simply overwhelemed<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\">\u00a0Esperance were a class above in terms of tactics, technique, skill and savvy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\">Esperance had a budget that is 18 times the size of Gor Mahia&#8217;s budget and it showed on the field.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"auto-style6\">Preliminary Round<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"auto-style6\">2nd Leg (Bitam):<\/h3>\n<p class=\"auto-style6\">Gor Mahia 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 US Bitam 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style6\">Gor Mahia won 4-2 on penalties<\/p>\n<p class=\"auto-style9\">Jerim Onyango was the hero of the day.\u00a0He saved a penalty during the run of play and saved two more penalties during the shootout.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"auto-style6\">1st Leg (Nairobi):<\/h3>\n<p class=\"auto-style6\">Gor Mahia 1 US Bitam 0 (Dan Sserunkuma (pen) )<\/p>\n<p>Bitam were coached by Cameroun legend Francois Omam Biyik. The match was evenly balanced as both teams threatened. However it was Gor Mahia who broke through a penalty by Dan Sserunkuma.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/sseru-bitam-14.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"451\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sserunkuma in action against US Bitam at Nyayo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 417px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/unfair-ref-gabon.jpg\" width=\"417\" height=\"513\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the return leg, the referee was utterly biased against Gor Mahia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/wowino-red-gabon.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"506\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owino &#8220;Calabar&#8221; was given his marching orders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/rama-temper-gabon.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"511\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rama Salim lost his cool with the referee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/jerim-save-pen-gabon.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"290\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerim Onyango saves a penalty in the shootout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/jerim-celeb-save-gabon.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"280\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerim celebrates after saving a penalty and winning the shootout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/team-celeb-gabon.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"279\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gor Mahia celebrate after eliminating US Bitam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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\/gor-mahia-in-africa\/2014-caf-champions-league\/\"\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>First Round 1st Leg (Nairobi) Gor Mahia 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Esperance 3 Gor Mahia&#8217;s first goal came via a penalty scored by\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[714],"tags":[507,733],"class_list":["post-17219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gor-mahia-in-africa","tag-gor-mahia-vs-esperance","tag-gor-mahia-vs-us-bitam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219","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=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17226,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions\/17226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}