{"id":7875,"date":"2016-01-15T16:36:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=7875"},"modified":"2016-01-16T03:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T03:24:57","slug":"gor-mahia-beats-st-george-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-beats-st-george-on-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia beats St George on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/gm-stgeorge-trophy-15.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gor Mahia pose with trophy<br \/>\n<br \/>Image courtesy of Bonface Osano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia have started the 2016 season on a bright note by beating Ethiopian giants St George 5-4 on penalties. The match had ended 1-1 in regulation time. The match was being played to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of St George&#8217;s existence.<\/p>\n<p>New signing Jacob Keli opened his Gor Mahia account with a goal just before half time. Uganda international Brian Umony equalized for the Ethiopian side in the 90th minute thus forcing the match into penalties.<\/p>\n<p>It is a significant achievement considering that St George were the host side playing in front of a partisan crowd. And they have won the Ethiopian league 27 times including the last two (2014 and 2015). Consider also that Kogalo were playing without the full complement of players.<\/p>\n<p>It is a stark contrast to last season where Gor Mahia lost to Power Dynamos in their first major friendly of the season. At the time Nuttall asked fans for patience stating that the team was still building cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>All this shows that Kogalo are now already a cohesive unit and have not skipped a beat and a ready to conquer 2016 in the same manner that they conquered the year 2015.<\/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-beats-st-george-on-penalties\/\"\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 have started the 2016 season on a bright note by beating Ethiopian giants St George 5-4 on penalties.<\/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":[404,293],"class_list":["post-7875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-vs-st-george","tag-jacob-keli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875","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=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}