{"id":5590,"date":"2014-11-04T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2014-11-04T01:11:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T01:11:50","slug":"its-down-to-the-last-day-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/its-down-to-the-last-day-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Its down to the last day again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/walu-kra.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"477\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last match against KRA ended in a tie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once again Gor Mahia are in a do or die situation. On the very last day of the 2014 Tusker Premier League, they are one point ahead of Sofapaka. Though they hold their own destiny in their own hands, they have no margin for error. They simply have to beat Ushuru on the last day.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s record on the last day of the league has not been stellar. In 2011, they needed to beat Sofapaka and hope that Ulinzi lose. And in 2012, they needed to beat Thika United. Both matches ended in a draw. The latter game then current team manager Tom Ogweno his job when coach Zdravko Logarusic accused him of mismanaging team meals on match day. Nobody knows the truth but the team did seem sluggish on that day. In the end a sombre mood engulfed the stadium with players and fans alike weaping.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will have learned from their lessons from the past. They will know that Ushuru might come to the game ready to park the bus and frustrate Kogalo. Coach Nuttall will therefore need to come up with a plan that can counter thi scenario. An early goal will help remove Ushuru from their defensive shell.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the two sides met, the match ended in a draw and Gor Mahia can actually thank keeper Jerim Onyango for that because there were several defensive lapses which Ushuru, then known as KRA could have capitalized on. Kogalo cannot afford a repeat of the same.<\/p>\n<h3>Fans must be patient<\/h3>\n<p>Fans are tense. They badly want to end a difficult season with the league title. However they must show patience with the players. The team may even fall behind during the match. Fans must show patience and not put the players under pressure. Some of the inexperienced players will only get more nervous and make yet more errors. The 12th man must make their presence felt and cheer the team from minute 0 to injury time.<\/p>\n<p>Three cheers to the fans on this blog and elsewhere who are doing their part to financially motivate the players. This is the time when the playing unit needs its fan base.<\/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\/its-down-to-the-last-day-again\/\"\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>Once again Gor Mahia are in a do or die situation. On the very last day of the 2014 Tusker<\/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":[233],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-vs-ushuru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590","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=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}