{"id":3082,"date":"2013-10-02T17:15:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2013-10-03T01:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T01:39:31","slug":"gor-mahia-edge-mathare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-edge-mathare-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia edge Mathare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/kevo-mathare.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia stepped up the gas to score twice in the second half, goals that knocked down hosts Mathare United 2-1 in a Kenyan Premier League clash played at the Nyayo National stadium on Wednesday 2 October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides were guilty of missed chances in the first half but the tid changed in the second half for the better \u2013 at least for Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p><b>Low shot <\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>K\u2019ogalo<\/i> will have to thank the hard working Dan Sserunkuma for the win as he scored the first goal and created the second.<\/p>\n<p>A miscued clearance from Kevin Omogi fell like manna on Sserunkuma\u2019s feet in the 53<sup>rd<\/sup> minute. He wasted no time as he raced to the top of the box and fired a low shot that keeper Peter Odhiambo only managed a touch, but failed to stop, as the ball rolled to the far post.<\/p>\n<p>In the 87<sup>th<\/sup> minute, Serunkuma bullied his way past two markers on the left, he looked up and squared a pass to the top of the box for the impressive Joseph Wanyonyi.<\/p>\n<p><b>Just wide <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The former Aspire academy player flung a hard shot goal ward that Odhiambo spilled straight to the path of substitute Edwin Lavatsa who made no mistake in sending the ball home.<\/p>\n<p>In between the two goals, Osborne Monday had a chance to get a goal for Mathare but his long range shot from 40 yards out in the 79<sup>th<\/sup> minute flew just wide.<\/p>\n<p><b>Eight point lead<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Mathare\u2019s goal however came, a little late though, when Wendo latched on to a long ball from his defense, shielded off two defenders in the 92<sup>nd<\/sup> minute of the game to place a low shot to the far right for a consolation.<\/p>\n<p>The win sends Gor, who still have a game in hand against Sony Sugar, to the 47 point mark to open an eight point lead over second placed Sofapaka.<\/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-edge-mathare-2\/\"\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 Gor Mahia stepped up the gas to score twice in the second half, goals that knocked down<\/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-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","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=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}