{"id":5328,"date":"2014-09-06T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T15:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2014-09-07T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T18:33:25","slug":"simba-3-gor-mahia-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/simba-3-gor-mahia-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia sink to Simba sports club"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/musa-okwi-simba-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musa Nassur takes on Emmanuel Okwi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was an Inauspicious start for coach Frank Nutall as a tired looking Gor Mahia went down 3-0 to Simba sports club of Dar es Salaam<\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kiongera came back to haunt Gor Mahia as his brace inspired Simba SC to a 3-0 win over the reigning Kenya Premier League (KPL) champions in a friendly match played at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.<b> \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The former KCB man introduced just after the halftime break, scored twice to sandwich Ramadhan Singano&#8217;s strike as Simba ran out 3-0 winners in coach Frank Nuttal first outing with the side.<\/p>\n<p>It was the home side that started on a high note with forwards Emmanuel Okwi and Ramadhan Singano combining well upfront. Things however quickly settled down to business with Singano forcing Jerim to a frantic save from an awarded free kick in the 20th minute.<\/p>\n<p><b>Changes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>His opposite number Ivo Mapunda\u00a0remained largely untested on the other end for the better part as Simba\u00a0 proved the most offensive in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Gor had a good chance go begging as Danny Sserenkuma lost his strides in front of goal after being set through with a well taken cross from the right wing.<\/p>\n<p>Simba made an early second half change introducing new acquisition, Paul Kiongera for Maguli. The change proved an instant hit as Kiongera headed home from Emmanule Okwi 55<sup>th<\/sup> minute cross for Simba&#8217;s opener against the club he once appeared for on loan.<\/p>\n<p><b>Doubled lead<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia came close again as Sserunkuma\u2019s \u00a0effort come off the post, with Jerim being called to another brilliant save to deny Simba a second goal on the opposite end.<\/p>\n<p>Ramandhan Singano doubled the host leads after tapping in from close range, before Kiongera converted in from Uhuru Selemani\u2019s cross to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>The former KCB man was at the centre of it again providing a good pass to Shaban Kisiga who failed to beat Jerim at goal the match later ending with the host taking home the convincing win.<\/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\/simba-3-gor-mahia-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>It was an Inauspicious start for coach Frank Nutall as a tired looking Gor Mahia went down 3-0 to Simba<\/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-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","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=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}