{"id":7505,"date":"2015-10-16T01:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2015-10-16T01:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:59:57","slug":"porous-defence-a-worry-as-tusker-beckons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/porous-defence-a-worry-as-tusker-beckons\/","title":{"rendered":"Porous defence a worry as Tusker beckons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/kagere-ushuru-cup-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coach Frank Nuttall has moved to assuage fans concerns about the fact that Gor Mahia has been conceding more goals than usual. In the Kenya Premier League, Gor Mahia has a stellar defensive record, conceding only 12 goals in 26 matches. However in the last few matches, Gor Mahia has conceded more goals than usual. Against Palos on Wednesday, Gor Mahia conceded two goals. They conceded a similar number against Ushuru FC  in the previous round.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Frank Nuttall explains it by saying that the team is now more focused on entertaining the fans by attacking with abandon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game was good we had possession and made use of the chances we had for the goals which are the main goal in such kind of a competition. \u201cWe were not to come here and keep a clean sheet so we headed out to try and score goals and when that happens sometimes that happens that you concede goals,\u201d  he said. to supersport.com<\/p>\n<p>Note also that Gor Mahia were playing without dependable defenders Karim Nizigiyimana and Abouba Sibomana.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia will need to shore up their defence when they face Tusker this Sunday in the KPL Top 8 semis first leg. It was Tusker who eliminated Gor Mahia last season and Gor Mahia will be going for nothing short of revenge. Tusker have heard a poor season, including their recent elimination from the GoTV shield by second tier team Nzoia FC. That loss caused the departure of coach Francis Kimanzi. New coach Leonard Odipo will be eager to make a good impression when he coaches his first game against Gor Mahia.<\/p>\n<p>But Gor Mahia will be in no mood to compromise as they pursue a title they have not won since 2011. Not to mention the fact that Kogalo are eager to keep their unbeaten record intact. <\/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\/porous-defence-a-worry-as-tusker-beckons\/\"\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>Coach Frank Nuttall has moved to assuage fans concerns about the fact that Gor Mahia has been conceding more goals<\/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-7505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505","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=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7509,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}