{"id":6405,"date":"2015-03-13T01:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T01:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=6405"},"modified":"2015-03-13T01:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T01:44:34","slug":"simon-pierre-knows-the-congolese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/simon-pierre-knows-the-congolese\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Pierre knows the Congolese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia&#8217;s Camerounian defender Simon Pierre is under no illusions about how difficult the match against AC Leopards will be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a big game for us and we are looking forward to it. They are well known in the continent and have a number of Congolese internationals and very good foreign players in their side.\u201d he said to supersport.com<\/p>\n<p>Pierre think the club can benefit from his familiarity with Congolese players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know them because we share a lot in terms of our football back in Cameroon and they are feared by many. Many will say that they are the favourites to go through but I know that on our day we can beat any side at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>#Operation Jaza Stadi<\/h2>\n<p>Pierre also called upon fans to turn out in large numbers and get behind the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be confident and hope that the fans come out in numbers to support us, because we are capable of doing well against them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of filling the stadium, Gor Mahia fans have started a social media campaign (#OperationJazaStadi) to encourage fans to turn out in large numbers. The number of Gor Mahia fans attending matches has been plummetting over the past two years with the club generating less than half the revenue it used to generate from big matches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/jaza-stadi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Against CNaPs, Gor Mahia were saved by the fact that they did not concede a goal at home. Against AC Leopards, keeping a clean sheet at home will be just as important as Pierre indicates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a clean sheet. It will boost us if we can keep a clean sheet. It will give us a good chance if we keep the clean sheet,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h2>Spying on Gor Mahia training sessions<\/h2>\n<p>AC Leopards sent an advance team of three officials to Nairobi early this week to monitor the proceedings and the party has been monitoring Gor Mahia\u2019s training sessions ahead of the Sunday tie according the daily Nation. This author does not understand why Gor Mahia&#8217;s opponents would be allowed to watch them train.\u00a0 The match will be broadcast live on SuperSport<\/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\/simon-pierre-knows-the-congolese\/\"\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&#8217;s Camerounian defender Simon Pierre is under no illusions about how difficult the match against AC Leopards will be.<\/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":[333],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-vs-ac-leopards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405","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=6405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6407,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6405\/revisions\/6407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}