{"id":7485,"date":"2015-10-11T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2015-10-12T02:57:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T02:57:51","slug":"more-questions-for-harambee-stars-after-dull-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/more-questions-for-harambee-stars-after-dull-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"More questions for Harambee stars after draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kenyapage.net\/football\/images\/stars-mauritius-15b.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia aces Boniface Oluoch and Michael Olunga were in the frame when Harambee stars were held to an uninspiring score-less draw by Mauritius. Also in the frame was former Gor Mahia defender David Owino &#8220;Calabar&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The Stars were expected to win comfortably after they had won the away leg 5-2. Not to mention the fact that Mauritius are ranked at number 168 in the FIFA rankings and have a population of only 1.3 million. Mauritius were not impressive either except for their goalkeeper Jean Louis who kept stars at bay bolstered by dogged defending from their backline which they packed. <\/p>\n<p>Kenya created numerous chances but were guilty of missing several chances. Michael Olunga missed two gilt edged chances in the first half. On both occassions he sent timid shots on goal. Midfielder Eric Johanah Omondi, making his national team debut, was impressive and it was he who put Olunga through for one of his chances. Kogalo should consider bringing him into the fold. <\/p>\n<p>Kevin Amwayi who partnered with Olunga upfront was ineffective. And after sending a glorious chance over the bar in the 70th minute, the fans started to agitate for Allan Wanga to replace him. Coach Williamson finally obliged and brought on Wanga. <\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia goalkeeper Boniface Oluoch was rarely called upon to act. However when he was called upon, he acquited himself well, saving a one on one situation, denying Mauritius Striker Kevin Bru who had beaten the stars defense on a counter attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cape Verde will be a tall order<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Coach Bobby Williamson has yet to record an impressive performance since he took over as coach, leaving many wondering how his Ksh 2.5 million per month salary is justified. Kenya will have to pull up their socks significantly when the play Cape Verde, a team that has improved dramatically since they lost to Kenya in 2003. Cape Verde are currently ranked at number 41 in the FIFA rankings, which is 90 places ahead of Kenya at number 131. Virtually their entire squad plays in Europe. The first leg will be on November 19. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting Eleven<\/strong><br \/>\n Boniface Oluoch, Edwin Wafula, Dennis Odhiambo, David Owino, Brian Mandela, Victor Wanyama, Johannah Omollo, Ayub Timbe, Kevin Amwayi, Eric Johannah and Michael Olunga.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes<\/p>\n<p>David Okello, Musa Mohammed, Abdulatiff Omar, Allan Wanga, David Ochieng, Teddy Akumu and Harun Shakava.<\/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\/more-questions-for-harambee-stars-after-dull-draw\/\"\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 aces Boniface Oluoch and Michael Olunga were in the frame when Harambee stars were held to an uninspiring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"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-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}