{"id":6397,"date":"2015-03-12T00:52:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2015-03-12T00:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:52:57","slug":"gor-mahia-confident-ahead-of-tie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-confident-ahead-of-tie-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia confident ahead of tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/blackberry-cnaps-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia are up against a heavily favoured opponent. Congolese side AC Leopards have the pedigree having won the CAF confederations cup in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>However Gor Mahia are undaunted. They believe that all the hard work and effort they have put in over the past few weeks will pay off.<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe are not so concerned about what they have won and where they have been. Our main focus is to win the first leg to make our work easier in the return match. We are focused and are working hard to get a positive result in this fixture,\u201d said George Odhiambo Blackberry to the Standard.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Three years ago, Odhiambo was in sensational scoring form. But whereas the goal supply has gone down, Odhiambo has been one of the most useful players at the club in the past year or so. He was buoyed by the crucial goal he scored in Madagascar that saw Gor Mahia through<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThat goal has given me plenty of morale going into this match. I have trained well and ready to be given a starting role by the coach on Sunday,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Skipper Jerim Onyango is also confident that Gor Mahia can overcome odds and beat AC Leopards.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, every observer will bet in favour of AC Leopards because of what they have achieved in this competition. But we are Gor Mahia and we fear no foe,\u201cThe fighting spirit of Gor Mahia is what will lift us. We are the underdogs but we can shock Africa by eliminating AC Leopards,\u201d said Onyango to supersport.com.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the players, Jerim Onyango has been the most supportive of the new players despite facing intense competition for a starting poistion.<\/p>\n<p>You notive that we have so many new players, but they have already settled in well and working as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we maintain the self belief that saw us go past the preliminary round, we shall make it to the second round. That is our goal,\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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-confident-ahead-of-tie-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 are up against a heavily favoured opponent. Congolese side AC Leopards have the pedigree having won the CAF<\/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":[5,333,96],"class_list":["post-6397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-george-odhiambo-blackberry","tag-gor-mahia-vs-ac-leopards","tag-jerim-onyango"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397","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=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6402,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}