{"id":340,"date":"2012-02-03T02:09:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T02:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-02-03T03:16:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T03:16:54","slug":"both-sides-confident-ahead-of-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/both-sides-confident-ahead-of-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Both sides confident ahead of clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-merreikh12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Both sides expressed their confidence ahead of the DSTV\/ Supersport Super cup match.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe are going for nothing less than a win. We will be collecting our first  \ttrophy on Sunday,\u201d Gor Mahia captain Jerry Onyango said without batting an  \teyelid on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Straight talking Gor Mahia secretary George Bwana picked up the flow by  \tassuring the Green Army that victory will be theirs.<\/div>\n<div>Bwana urged the club\u2019s fans to come out in large numbers to cheer the team  \tto victory.<\/div>\n<div>League champions Tusker could have been feeling the heat of the verbal  \tbattle.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Tusker coach Sammy Omollo said the timing was perfect. In an interview with super sport, he said\u00a0 &#8220;<span>I am happy we are playing the SuperCup against a formidable side like Gor Mahia and i belive the match will be a battle of the titans as both team have very talented players&#8221;<\/span><span><span> &#8220;We are ready to face Kogalo as my players are geared up towards the  weekend clash.I will be using the opportunity not to only test my new  players but to also ensure we get our first silverware of the season by beating Gor Mahia&#8221;a confident Omollo told<\/span> SuperSport.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWe will wait for the match and see what happens,\u201d was all Tusker\u2019s acting  \tcaptain Samuel Odhiambo could offer when asked what he thought of his team\u2019s  \tchances. But it could also be that Tusker, seasoned campaigners at this  \tlevel, been-there-done-that, were just making the appropriate noise before  \tthe big day.<\/div>\n<div>The Dstv\/SuperSport Cup protagonists were speaking at The Tribe Hotel during  \ta cheque presentation ceremony for the prize money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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\/both-sides-confident-ahead-of-clash\/\"\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>Both sides expressed their confidence ahead of the DSTV\/ Supersport Super cup match. \u201cWe are going for nothing less than<\/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-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}