{"id":7608,"date":"2015-11-06T03:32:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T03:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2015-11-06T03:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T03:32:23","slug":"gor-mahia-take-on-sony-sugar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-take-on-sony-sugar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia take on SoNy Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/tusker-gm-ref-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of wuod ambira<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having beaten Tusker in a stormy semi final, Gor Mahia will take on SoNy Sugar in the final of the 2015 KPL Top 8 on Saturday. Gor Mahia won 4-3 aggregate over their intense rivals. The first leg ended 2-2 while Gor Mahia won the second leg 2-1. It marked the 3rd time that Gor Mahia has beaten Tusker this season.<\/p>\n<p>But SoNy will be no pushovers. They beat Tusker 3-1 for a 5-3 aggregate win. That is an impressive feat for a side that was battling relegation early in the season. SoNy battled Gor Mahia gamely when the two sides met at Nyayo stadium in September. Only an Innocent Wafula goal separated the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>The match will be played in Kisumu where Gor Mahia receives fanatical support. And SoNy Sugar are braced for what is likely to be an intense atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have worked so hard to get to the final. Against Gor Mahia, there is a lot of intimidation from the fans and very little margin of error,\u201d Sony\u2019s Justin Monda to the Nation.<\/p>\n<p>SoNy will have to deal with the in form Gor Mahia attack led by Michael Olunga and Meddie Kagere. Though Olunga missed out on the KPL top scorer award, he will likely win the title of domestic leading scorer in all competitions. His second goal against SoNy is typical of what makes Olunga a great striker, his ability to be in the right place at the right time. Against Tusker, he intercepted a backpass from a Tusker defender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is all about anticipation because I scored a similar goal here against Ushuru. As a striker you have to read the intentions of a defender and when I realized he (Musana) was undecided I knew he would give a back pass, \u00a0that is why I ran towards the keeper&#8221; said Olunga to futaa.com<\/p>\n<h3>Could Cheche join Gor Mahia?<\/h3>\n<p>Former Tusker defender David Ochieng Cheche could join Gor Mahia in the coming season. The dependable central defender was seen among Kogalo players during the trophy ceremony on Sunday. He has also been seen in Gor Mahia attire lately. Cheche&#8217;s contract with Al Tawoon ended months ago and he has been without a club since then.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 542px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/cheche-cup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"361\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">image courtesy of K24TV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also at the trophy ceremony last weekend was Liberian stopper Dirkir Glay whose contract with South African side Mpumalanga Black Aces was terminated less than a month after he signed for them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-take-on-sony-sugar-2\/\"\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>Having beaten Tusker in a stormy semi final, Gor Mahia will take on SoNy Sugar in the final of the<\/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":[392,248],"class_list":["post-7608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-david-ochieng-cheche","tag-michael-olunga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608","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=7608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7611,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}