{"id":8323,"date":"2016-04-10T18:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2016-04-10T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:43:57","slug":"gor-mahia-heldby-ushuru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-heldby-ushuru\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia held by Ushuru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gor Mahia were dominant but could not convert their possession into goals as they were held to a 0-0 draw by Ushuru FC<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting by citizen sports<br \/>\nJacob Keli missed a second half penalty for SportPesa Premier League champions Gor Mahia as Ushuru FC held them to a 0-0 draw at Nairobi\u2019s Nyayo National Stadium on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Khalid Aucho was also taken off the pitch with suspected concussion in the first half as injury woes piled on the titleholders who rose to eighth on 11 points after the stalemate with Ushuru remaining 12th two points adrift.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: SportPesa Premier League Preview: Wounded Ingwe face lowly Sofapaka<\/p>\n<p>Keen to record a third successive victory since former Brazil international, Ze Maria, took charge K\u2019Ogalo who were missing four regular starters started on a high tempo, keeping Ushuru\u2019s custodian Shanan Odhoji busy from the first whistle but the custodian put a man-of-the match performance to rescue the point for his side in the end.<br \/>\nHe had to punch out a Keli\u2019s diving header in the fifth after the forward seeked to profit from Karim Nizigiyamana\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n<p>Edmond Murai wasted the rebound before Francis Kahata powered another shot that went wide as the taxmen\u2019s goal came under siege.<\/p>\n<p>Innocent Wafula found Murai again in the box but Odhoji denied the replacement forward that came in with record signing and Rwandese international, Jacques Tuyisenge who was out injured.<\/p>\n<p>A minute later Keli wasted a real chance shooting wide with Odhoji well beaten.<\/p>\n<p>Ushuru responded with Charles Okwemba\u2019s free kick just outside the box that went straight to keeper Boniface Oluoch who was starting for the second game in a row.<\/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-heldby-ushuru\/\"\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 were dominant but could not convert their possession into goals as they were held to a 0-0 draw<\/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-8323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323","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=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}