{"id":3901,"date":"2014-02-10T14:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2014-02-19T03:04:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T03:04:27","slug":"williamson-upbeat-on-prospects-in-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/williamson-upbeat-on-prospects-in-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson upbeat on prospects in Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/williamson-bobby-bench.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<br \/>\nGor Mahia started off their campaign in Champions League on a positive note with a well earned 1-0 win over Gabonese side US Bitam at Nyayo Stadium<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia tactician Bobby Williamson remains hopeful that the team will play attacking football in Gabon when they face US Bitam in the return leg of Caf Champions League on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia started off their campaign in the lucrative competition on a positive note with a well earned 1-0 win over their Gabonese opponents at Nyayo Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should have scored more goals because that was our target. To be sincere, 1-0 is very tight but the most important thing is that we never conceded a goal. It was our strategy from onset to ensure we do not concede a goal and we did exactly that,\u201d Williamson told Goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish however, insists K\u2019Ogalo will not be going to Gabon to defend the slim advantage but will try and score at least a goal to boost their chances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course they will open up the game knowing they must score. It will be a blessing for us because we are also going there to score. Hopefully we can keep the clean sheet as well and if we score first then pressure will be on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, the return legs of Caf competitions will not be played after a fortnight as has been the norm owing to the World Cup and Gor Mahia have less than three days to sharpen up before they travel to Gabon.<\/p>\n<h4>Praise<\/h4>\n<p>Asked about new signing Haron Shakava, Bobby said &#8220;He is displaying a pleasing performance on the pitch,. -He has the composure when having the ball. Despite his age he did his best in the game which is good for him and for the club.&#8221; said Bobby\u00a0 to futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/williamson-upbeat-on-prospects-in-gabon\/\"\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 goal.com Gor Mahia started off their campaign in Champions League on a positive note with a well earned<\/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-3901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","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=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}