{"id":6856,"date":"2015-06-01T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=6856"},"modified":"2015-06-01T18:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T18:54:47","slug":"gor-mahia-blank-thika-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-blank-thika-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia blank Thika United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia trounced Thika United 2-0 at Kasarani in a Madaraka day match thus sielncing Thika United&#8217;s trash talking coach Tim Bryett.<\/p>\n<p>courtesy of goal.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"leading\">Haroun Shakava and Ali Abondo scored a goal in each half to enable the Kenyan Premier League champions keep their place at the top of the log<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia maintained their unbeaten run with a deserved 2-0 win over Thika United at Kasarani\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haroun Shakava<\/strong> and <strong>Ali Abondo<\/strong> scored a goal in each half to enable the Kenyan Premier League champions keep their place at the top of the log on 36 points.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Jackson Macharia being denied a genuine goal which was ruled off-side, Thika United will have nothing much to complain about in a first half dominated by their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia controlled proceedings for the most part and were rewarded when Haroun Shakava found the back of the net in the 22nd minute with a brilliant header that beat Thika United goalkeeper Levi Opiyo all the way. <em>K&#8217;Ogalo<\/em> were dominant in\u00a0an action packed second half where they clearly dominated and were just unlucky not to get a goal within the quarter hour.<\/p>\n<p>First Karim Nizigiyimana won a free-kick just outside the Thika United box but he placed it too low to be of benefit to anyone. Then Meddie Kagere beat Thika United defender Vincent Nyaberi to the ball and chipped the ball over Thika United goalkeeper but Collins Okumu headed out the danger.<\/p>\n<p>Kagere was in the middle of action again in the 50th minute with the Rwandese once again denied by Thika United goalkeeper Levi Opiyo. Michael Olunga was then denied by Thika United goalkeeper, who put out the ball for Gor Mahia&#8217;s first corner of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts were only able to get back into the match in the 55th minute but had to be content with a corner. But no sooner had that happened than Thika United were forced into the offensive and it had to take some great piece of play for Collins\u00a0Okumu to deny Michael Olunga.<\/p>\n<p>Then Wycliff Opondo and Simon Mbugua were both cautioned. This happened after Kennedy Otieno had come close to equalise for the visitors but his effort went wide. Ali Abondo&#8217;s thunderous shot in the 65th minute should have counted and it forced Thika United custodian to work over time to keep out the ball.<\/p>\n<p>As Thika United wasted their chances, they were duly punished with an 82nd minute goal from a well struck free-kick by Ali Abondo.<\/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-blank-thika-united\/\"\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 trounced Thika United 2-0 at Kasarani in a Madaraka day match thus sielncing Thika United&#8217;s trash talking coach<\/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-6856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856","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=6856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6859,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6856\/revisions\/6859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}