{"id":7692,"date":"2015-11-25T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2015-11-26T00:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T00:42:28","slug":"olunga-scores-again-to-salvage-draw-for-harambee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/olunga-scores-again-to-salvage-draw-for-harambee\/","title":{"rendered":"Olunga scores again to salvage draw for Harambee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/olunga-nizig-cecafa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olunga was marked by clubmate nizigiyimana Image courtesy of Citizen TV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael Olunga continued his prolific scoring form for the national team on Wednesday when he scored the equalizing goal as Kenya&#8217;s Harambee Stars were held to a 1-1 draw by Burundi. It was Olunga&#8217;s 4th goal in 5 games for Harambee Stars, having scored against Zambia, Cape Verde and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi were featuring Gor Mahia ace full back Karim Nizigiyimana as well as Fuadi Ndayisenga of Sofapaka.<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting via Capital FM<\/p>\n<p>Nizigiyimana man-marked club mate Olunga, denying him in the space to operate in the box as soon as proceedings got underway in a packed stadium where home fans were waiting for the Walia Ibex were to take on Somalia in the second game of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The Burundians sparked into life when Ndayisenga dribbled past skipper, David Ochieng, on the left to cut in to Tambwe who tapped the ball past keeper Boniface Oluoch to force the champions chase the game.<\/p>\n<p>Finland based winger, Clifton Miheso then headed wide from Omar Mbongi\u2019s delivery before seeing his cross intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>Stars mounted more pressure on the Burundians and got the equaliser when Miheso delivered a deep ball into the area for Jacob Keli, who scored the opener in Sunday\u2019s 2-0 win over Uganda, who knocked it down for Olunga.<\/p>\n<p>The K\u2019Ogalo forward notched his 37th goal of a memorable year when he brushed past David\u2019s Nshimirimana with a clever dummy before smashing past Arthur Arakaza with a low right foot shot for his second of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson rang the changes in the second half; introducing Christian Bwamy in midfield for K\u2019Ogalo\u2019s Collins Okoth to seek the advantage.<\/p>\n<p>For all his scoring prowess, Olunga and Miheso combined to spurn the opportunities that fell their way with the lanky forward first forcing Arakaza to dive and parry away his long range thunderbolt as Mbongi recovered swiftly on the other hand to block Tabwe\u2019s strike in the box when Burundi attacked the other end.<\/p>\n<p>Azam FC forward, Allan Wanga came in for the ineffectual Keli as the Scotsman sought more bite upfront as the half drew to a close.<\/p>\n<p>Miheso them cut in for Bwamy who saw his shot blocked but it was Mathare United\u2019s Eric Johanna who could have been the hero when he shinned Didier Kavumbavu to unleash a ferocious low shot but Arakaza but blocked with his legs for a fruitless corner at the near post.<\/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\/olunga-scores-again-to-salvage-draw-for-harambee\/\"\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>Michael Olunga continued his prolific scoring form for the national team on Wednesday when he scored the equalizing goal as<\/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":[248],"class_list":["post-7692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-michael-olunga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692","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=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7695,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions\/7695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}