{"id":7017,"date":"2015-07-08T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2015-07-09T01:46:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T01:46:45","slug":"gor-mahia-sinks-thika-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-sinks-thika-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia sinks Thika United"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/kagere-dennis-odhis-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"392\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meddie Kagere tussles with Dennis Odhiambo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia continued what looks like an unstoppable march to their third succesive title when they sunk Thika United 2-0 in a midweek match played at City stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Thika held Gor Mahia to a scoreless first half, but Gor Mahia was the better side and could have taken the lead as early as the 3rd minute but Olunga failed to connect with a Meddie Kagere&#8217;s cross. In the 5th minute, Thika goalkeeper Hamza Muwonge made a double save, parrying away Walusimbi and Ali Abondo&#8217;s efforts into fruitless corners. Gor Mahia continued to press forward. In the 36th minute, Collins Okoth&#8217;s goal-bound effort was blocked by a Thika defender. 5 minutes later, Vincent Nyaberi dealt carelessly with a cross from Kagere and almost scored an own goal.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Gor Mahia continued to pour forward.\u00a0 Only 5 minutes in, Collins Okoth marched towards the Thika goal but his well taken shot almost resulted in the opener. Gor Mahia finally broke the deadlock: The first goal came in the 63rd minute when a cross from the right wing was poorly cleared by the Thika backline. It fell right into the path of Geoffrey Walusimbi who volleyed home with no hesitation. His technique was excquisite<\/p>\n<p>The second goal came from yet another poor clearance from the Thika Backline. This time it fell to Olunga who leaned back and headed the ball home for the second goal.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Frank Nuttall lauded his team for their focus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a highly focused team that is determined to be winners and it is this focus that is producing good results&#8221;, said Nuttall<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Thika coach Tim Bryett said he had no regrets about his team&#8217; s performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no shame in losing. We are rebuilding and we have some things to focus on&#8221;, said Bryett.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gor Mahia<\/b> <b>Starting XI<\/b>: 23. Bonface Oluoch. 5. Musa Mohamed. 14. Karim Nizigiyimana. 3. Abouba Sibomana.\u00a0 6. Collins Okoth. 30. Ali Abondo [. 29. Innocent Wafula 73\u2019]\u00a0 18. Harun Shakava. 22. Meddie Kagere. 2. Godfrey Walusimbi [7. Ronald Omino 83\u2019],19. Michael Olunga [24. Enock Agwanda 79\u2019], 10. Khalid Aucho.<\/p>\n<p><b>Unuesd subs:<\/b> 1. Jerim Onyango, 15. Bernard Odhiambo. 25. George Odhiambo.\u00a0 17. Eric Ochieng\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thika United Starting XI: <\/b>Hamzah Muwonge \u00a0[GK], Simon Mbugua, Collins Okumu,Vincent Nyaberi,Dennis Odhiambo, Michael Mutinda,Kennedy Otieno [Musa Saad 84\u2019], Jackson Macharia [Samwel Mwanje 76\u2019], Eugene Mukangula,Raymond Ochieng [Kepha Aswani 66\u2019], Joseph Kuria<\/p>\n<p><b>Subs: <\/b>Mark Omwansa, Ronny Katumanga, Vincent Omumbo and Timothy Luda.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/gm-cnn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" \/><\/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-sinks-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 continued what looks like an unstoppable march to their third succesive title when they sunk Thika United 2-0<\/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":[343,121],"class_list":["post-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2015-kenya-premier-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-thika-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017","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=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}