{"id":3876,"date":"2014-02-08T14:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2014-02-13T13:09:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T13:09:37","slug":"gor-mahia-0-us-bitam-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-0-us-bitam-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia 1 US Bitam 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gm-celeb-bitam-14.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s representatives in the CAF Champions League Gor Mahia, saw off Gabonese champions US Bitam 1 \u2013 0 in the clash played at the Nyayo National Stadium on Saturday 8 February to start their 2014 continental campaign on a high.<\/p>\n<p>Dominant possession from Gor Mahia saw them cause the first scare on the eighth minute when Danny Sserunkuma raced through in an attempt to beat Stephane Yves Bitseki in the US Bitam goal but the keeper did well to dodge him cheekily before clearing as Rama Salim rushed in.<\/p>\n<p><b>Walusimbi impressive<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The visitors managed to break forward on the 17<sup>th<\/sup> minute through Junior Aubyang but his low cross was closer to Jerim Onyango in the Gor Mahia goal than his team mate Abdoulaye Coulibaly.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan international Godfrey Walusimbi who so far had impressed did one of his great runs forward on the left flank and managed to deliver a beauty of a cross on the 21<sup>st<\/sup> minute but his cross met no one in the box and flashed across the face of goal before Bitam cleared.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jerim save<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes later both sides won free kicks in inviting positions just outside the box but Claude Mve skied his just before Sserunkuma repeated the feat on the other end.<\/p>\n<p>As the half drew to the end, Jerim Onyango pulled a world class save to keep Meye Axel\u2019s header off the target while on the other end George Blackberry Odhiambo narrowly missed the target with a well taken shot after picking a loose ball at the edge of the box.<\/p>\n<p><b>Turning point<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The game\u2019s turning point came in the second half when on the hour mark, Yves Bitseki was sent off for handling the ball outside his area and Fabien Owono came in as a replacement with Claude Mve the player sacrificed.<\/p>\n<p>The new keeper got a taste of the action when Dan Sserunkuma took a shot on goal on 72 minutes but it was straight at him and he made an easy save. That however was not the case two minutes later when Sserunkuma won a penalty after his shot was handled in the box. The Ugandan stepped forward to calmly slot home.<\/p>\n<p><b>Missed chance <\/b><\/p>\n<p>It could have been worse for the visitors on the 80<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Sserunkuma raced well to pick a dipping pass from the midfield but his shot beat the keeper and not the post.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will travel to Libreville for the second leg of the tie scheduled for Saturday 15 February.<\/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-0-us-bitam-0\/\"\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 Kenya\u2019s representatives in the CAF Champions League Gor Mahia, saw off Gabonese champions US Bitam 1 \u2013<\/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-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876","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=3876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}