{"id":2989,"date":"2013-09-11T15:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2013-09-11T16:52:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T16:52:31","slug":"gor-mahia-humble-shabana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-humble-shabana\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia humble Shabana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/mapunda-dive.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Ivo Mapunda missed an 86th minute penalty as Gor Mahia FC cruised into the 2013\u00a0GOtv Shield\u00a0round of 16 with a 6-0 thrashing of Shabana FC at the Nyayo Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>K\u2019ogalo were the favourites in the match and dominated possessions despite Shabana FC\u2019s earlier attempts to contain their strikers.<\/p>\n<p>The first goal of the match was netted on the 34<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0minute by Kevin Omondi, who teamed up well with Danny Sserunkuma.<\/p>\n<p><b>Opponents<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Shabana had a real chance of scoring on the 36<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0minute when Joash Ogega received a good ball in the Gor box. He connected with it using his head but sent it out.<\/p>\n<p>Four minutes later, Sserunkuma received a good cross on the left flank. He shot hard and the ball, slipping through the hands of Shabana Keeper Stephen Mokandu, went to rest in goal.<\/p>\n<p>The second half was even better for Gor Mahia as they managed to pull down their opponents defense plans ans ran rings around them for the better part of it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Heavily marked\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sserunkuma was however not a free man this time as he was under heavy surveillance from the Shabana defenders leading to his substitution in the 60th minute.<\/p>\n<p>He [Sserunkuma] was however not replaced without clinching his brace in the match which he did in the 59th minute after being set up by unselfish Paul Odhiambo who could have gone for goal himself.<\/p>\n<p>The goal came three minutes after Shabana defender\u00a0Christopher Machuka had given away a penalty after handling the ball in the box which was converted by Kevin Omondi.<\/p>\n<p><b>Things fell apart for Shabana<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ex-Tena United striker\u00a0Angelo Okumu then opened his account at Gor Mahia with a well powered left footer hat goalkeeper\u00a0Stephen Mokandu on the Shabana goal could not contain for the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Harambee Stars defender David Owino had his flick saved in the 75th minute before Mungai Kiongera&#8217;s curled in shot from the edge of the area rattled the woodwork before heading out for a goalkick in the 85th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia has an opportunity to make it six through a panalty but goalkeeper Ivo Mapunda sent his shot way off the mark to the amusement of the fans and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Lavatsa however made up for the missed chance after a defensive lapse that saw Shabana defenders fail to clear a loose ball which the Stars forward pounced on and scored for the sixth and final goal in the third minute of added time<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0winner of the will face Thika United in the pre-quarters\u00a0which will be played in the weekend of\u00a0weekend of 21 and 22 September.<\/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-humble-shabana\/\"\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>courtesy of futaa.com Goalkeeper Ivo Mapunda missed an 86th minute penalty as Gor Mahia FC cruised into the 2013\u00a0GOtv Shield\u00a0round<\/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-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}