{"id":360,"date":"2012-02-20T03:54:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T03:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=360"},"modified":"2012-02-20T03:55:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T03:55:03","slug":"gor-mahia-stay-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-stay-hopeful\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia stay hopeful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/awono2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From Daily Nation<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gor Mahia\u2019s Cameroonian coach Annaba Awono refused to accept  defeat in the wake of the 3-0 fall to hosts Ferroviaro de Maputo of  Mozambique in the first leg clash of the CAF Confederation Cup on  Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia had hoped to return to Nairobi at least  with a draw from Maputo but ended up soaking up three goals leaving them  with a mountain to climb in the second leg game in three weeks\u2019 time in  Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>score.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It could have been worse for the Kenyans at the 40th minute but captain Jerim Onyango dived the right side to save a penalty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But the Mozambican side went two up at the hour mark through Nzili and three up at the death courtesy of another Nzili goal.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Gor\u2019s tough tackling midfielder Collins Okoth, who had been  booked in the first half, was red-carded with a minute of play remaining  after a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>But on Sunday, Awono said he would rectify the few mistakes he noticed in defence and midfield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He also hopes his injured aces &#8211; Hugo Nzangu,  George Midenyo and Dimonde Selenga &#8211; will all be fit for the return leg.  \u201cI hope to have a full squad in the return leg. We are down but not  out,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Gor Mahia returned back on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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\/gor-mahia-stay-hopeful\/\"\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>From Daily Nation Gor Mahia\u2019s Cameroonian coach Annaba Awono refused to accept defeat in the wake of the 3-0 fall<\/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-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}