{"id":8360,"date":"2016-04-22T01:52:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2016-04-22T01:52:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T01:52:09","slug":"gor-mahia-go-hunting-for-points-against-sony-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-go-hunting-for-points-against-sony-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia go hunting for points against SoNy Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/team16c.jpg\" width=\"679\" height=\"382\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Bonface Osano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gor Mahia will resume their hunt for 2016 Kenya Premier League points when they take on SoNy Sugar at the Nyayo stadium on Saturday.\u00a0 The match was initially scheduled for Afraha stadium in Nakuru. This is because Kasarani was booked for another league match, City stadium is unavailable while\u00a0 Nyayo stadium was initially booked for the match between the Kenya U20 side and their Sudanese counterparts.\u00a0 Nyayo became available once Kenya was disqualified.<\/p>\n<p>New coach Jose Marcelo aka Ze Maria has yet to convince fans that his samba touch . Fans will be eager to see an improvement in results. So far Kogalo have won only two out of five matches. They have only conceded six goals which means the defence and goalkeeping departments are still solid. And Gor Mahia have dominated large swathes of matches but have been unable to convert possession into goals.<\/p>\n<p>Boniface Owino who was between the posts for the last two games will likely be in goal again as he awaits the disciplinary measures that KPL will met out againt him for pushing the referee during the chaotic encounter with Tusker last Saturday. KPL are due to make a ruling next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce such a matter has been captured in the referees report, it is taken over by our disciplinary committee. In this case, they are scheduled to sit next week,\u201d said Jack Oguda to goal.com<\/p>\n<p>Last year SoNy proved a tough nut to crack. Gor Mahia beat them 1-0 in an intense battle thanks to a goal by Innocent Wafula. It was the win the sealed the 2015 KPL title for Kogalo. The good news for Gor Mahia is that SoNy Sugar are also having a rough season. One win from nine matches has left them second from bottom.<\/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-go-hunting-for-points-against-sony-sugar\/\"\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 will resume their hunt for 2016 Kenya Premier League points when they take on SoNy Sugar at 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":[414,185],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2016-kenya-premier-league","tag-gor-mahia-vs-sony-sugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360","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=8360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}