{"id":2181,"date":"2013-04-05T02:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T02:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2013-04-05T02:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T02:36:55","slug":"let-the-fans-make-home-ground-advantage-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/let-the-fans-make-home-ground-advantage-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the fans Make home ground advantage count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-fans-12b.jpg\" width=\"483\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia face a herculean task of overturning a 0-3 deficit against a tactically astute Egyptian side. It is a tall order especially when you consider that Gor Mahia have had difficulty scoring goals at home in theor last three continental matches. Whereas the odds are rather steep, there is a saying that goes &#8220;Anything is possible in football. Few would have thought that Sofapaka could score 4 goals against Egyptian side Ismailia 2 years ago. Yet they did it without the benefit of a supportive home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>This Gor Mahia squad is capable of pulling such a feat. The fans must play their part. Fans must show up in large numbers and by get behind their team from the very beginning and do not stop cheering until the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Injuries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will be without Rama Salim and Raphael Kiongera who proved a dependable scorer for the team in the first few matches. \u201cI am yet to recover from my thigh injury. I can barely run and I do not know for how long I will be out because the doctors have not put a time-line on the recovery process,\u201d Kiongera told The star newspaper.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>ENPPI coach said he respects Gor Mahia especially from the way they played in Cairo in the first leg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cGor Mahia is a good team, but I think technically we are superior,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>In their absence, Gor Mahia will depend on Dan Sserunkuma who has yet to regain the form that saw him almost finish atop the scoring charts least season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coaches View<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia coach Zdvarko Logarusic has stated that North African teams are beatable and that Gor Mahia can do it on Saturday. \u201cTwo years ago when I was coach of Ashgold (of Ghana), Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia beat us 3-0 in Tunis but when they came to Ghana, we beat them 3-1 yet they were the defending champions in this same competition. So it is not impossible,\u201d he told the Daily Nation.<\/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\/let-the-fans-make-home-ground-advantage-count\/\"\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 face a herculean task of overturning a 0-3 deficit against a tactically astute Egyptian side. It is a<\/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-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","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=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}