{"id":4855,"date":"2014-07-11T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2014-07-11T12:26:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:26:50","slug":"gor-mahia-take-on-western-stima-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-take-on-western-stima-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia take on Western Stima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/gm-clap-machakos-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia fans will be hoping that the club can get back on track when they take on Western Stima on Saturday. Gor Mahia has not won a match in six attempts. There was a loss and a draw against Tusker in the KPL Top 8 tournament. A loss to arc rivals AFC leopards in the KPL followed by draws with KRA and Thika United.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this was caused by the instability caused by player transfers. Some players were busy attending trials or preparing for trials or not training at all in order to avoid injuries before trials. Others may have been distracted by offers from other clubs as all kinds of rumours flew around. Still others were unsettled by the prospect of losing a large number team-mates, which can have a demoralizing effect. Then there is the financial instability at the club occasioned by KRA which the club EC still has not addressed. Now that the dust is settling and there is a level of stability in the playing unit, Coach Williamson will have had time to find working combinations.<\/p>\n<p>The last time these two teams met, Gor Mahia won 2-0 at the City stadium. However Western Stima will be no pushovers as Tusker found out last week. With talisman Sserunkuma away in Denmark for trials, it will be interesting to see whom Williamson plays upfront. He has options. Timothy Otieno who showed some flashes of promise last week could be deployed. There is the new signing Arthur Ssemazi as well as veterans George Odhiambo and Patrick Oboya. Fans will hope that returnee Collins Okoth picks up where he left off last week.<\/p>\n<h3>Ticketing Info<\/h3>\n<p>According to futaa.com, tickets will be available at the Venue (Afraha stadium) from 9:00 am. Western Stima, the home team in the clash will handle the ticketing and has set prices at Kshs 500 for fans who intend to watch from the main stand (VIP) while those looking to get tickets for the terraces will have to part with Kshs 200. Match kickoff is 3:00 pm.<\/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-take-on-western-stima-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>Gor Mahia fans will be hoping that the club can get back on track when they take on Western Stima<\/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":[136,137],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-vs-western-stima","tag-kenya-premier-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","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=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}