{"id":8061,"date":"2016-02-17T02:17:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2016-02-17T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:18:14","slug":"gor-mahia-look-to-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-look-to-bounce-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia look to bounce back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/supercup16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\nGor Mahia coach Frank Nuttall is determined to put aside all the setbacks the team has faced this season and start the league on a positive note.<br \/>\n\u201cWe expect a tough season opener, but hope to pick some positive results from it,\u201d he said to the Standard.<\/p>\n<p>Goals have been scarce at the start of the season. And Nuttall has admitted that replacing the duo of Meddie Kagere and Michael Olunga is proving difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two scored 50 goals last season between them and this is not an easy thing to do,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Olunga scored four goals against Chemelil last season and gave their defence nightmares. One person who will heave a sigh of relief due to Olunga&#8217;s absence is Chemelil coach Mike Baraza. And whereas Baraza used to be the most vocal proponent of the &#8220;Gor Mahia wanabebwa na referee&#8221; conspiracy theory, Baraza has now changed his tune after Gor Mahia blasted seven goals past his side last season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGor is a big team, with an admirable heritage and history. We respect them, but as Chemelil Sugar we don\u2019t fear any opponents,\u201d Baraza said to the Standard.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Baraza will depend on the experienced trio of Hillary Echesa, Victor Majid and David Ojwang. The former two have been around for over ten years.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are determined to win against Gor and expect nothing short of collecting the maximum three points. We will be buoyed by the fact that we will be playing at our home ground at Moi Stadium, Kisumu,\u201d Echesa said.<\/p>\n<p>Echesa despite his vast experience does not seem to realize that Kisumu may technically be Chemelil&#8217;s home ground but Gor Mahia will have far more supporters. Perhaps Echesa has spent too much time outside the country having spent a decade playing in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Tanzania.<\/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-look-to-bounce-back\/\"\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 coach Frank Nuttall is determined to put aside all the setbacks the team has faced this season and<\/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":[414,339],"class_list":["post-8061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2016-kenya-premier-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-chemelil-sugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061","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=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8063,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions\/8063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}