{"id":1937,"date":"2013-03-01T03:40:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2013-03-01T03:42:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:42:27","slug":"gor-mahia-confident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-confident\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia confident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/caf.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having arrived safely in Seychelles, Gor Mahia are now looking forward to making amends for their below par performance in the first leg. The return leg will be played on Saturday in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Logarusic has expressed confidence that his side will turn the tables on the Seychellois. \u201cI have retained most of my players in the team and I have told them they have to give 100 percent and get a win away from home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have prepared well and to me this will be a do or die affair as we will see to beat our opponents in their backyard despite the first round performance,\u201d the Croat tactician told SuperSport.com<\/p>\n<p>The squad in Victoria includes Anthony Akumu who is not eligible to play. \u201cI am carrying Akumu because he played so well in the first leg and he deserved to be on the plane for the second leg,\u201d explained Logarusic to the Daily Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed Akumu has been in storming form since the arrival of Logarusic one year ago. Prior to that, his form was slumping to the point that he could no longer command a regular place in the starting lineup. His place in the starting lineup will likely be taken by Moses Otieno. Alternatively, Logarusic could deploy Ivan Anguyo or David Owino. Both are perfectly capable of playing in defensive midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Fans will be hoping that the team can rediscover its scoring boots. The trio of Rama Salim, Dan Sserunkuma and Edwin Lavatsa have not had much lack finding the net recently. To this end, new signing Paul Kiongera will be a critical cog in the Gor Mahia attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kiongera is a creative player who is able to link the attack well from midfield and he is an option going forward. I expect to see the best of his abilities as the season progresses,\u201d Logarusic added<\/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\/gor-mahia-confident\/\"\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>Having arrived safely in Seychelles, Gor Mahia are now looking forward to making amends for their below par performance in<\/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-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","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=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}