{"id":8781,"date":"2016-08-22T02:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T02:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2016-08-22T02:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T02:58:57","slug":"gor-mahia-youth-eliminate-afc-leopards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-youth-eliminate-afc-leopards\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia Youth eliminate AFC Leopards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/youth-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"320\" \/><br \/>\nGor Mahia youth managed to put aside their tribulations as they beat arch rivals AFC Leopards 2-1<br \/>\nAdditional Reporting from goal.com<br \/>\nGor Mahia youth team outclassed their rivals AFC Leopards in a KPL U20 quarterfinal match played on Sunday to qualify for semis<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia under 20 team edged out AFC Leopards counterparts 2-1 in a quarterfinal match played on Sunday at Nyayo stadium to qualify for the tournament\u2019s semifinal stage.<\/p>\n<p>All the goals were scored in the first half with Gor Mahia getting the lead on the 3rd minute before confirming their victory three minutes to the half-time whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Oguk was the first to draw the first blood for Gor Mahia connecting a through ball into the net past keeper Brian Bwire to stir-up the game for K\u2019Ogalo. In spite of more pressure piled thereafter in search of the second goal, AFC Leopards were keen on getting an equalizer and it took only 30 minutes for Valdo Madegwa to level matters. Eric Kinuthia was the man with the assist which Madegwa utilized to beat a defender before unleashing a rasping shot past Bixente Otieno.<\/p>\n<p>The battle then continued. Both teams were now on a mission to get their respective winner in order to sail to the tourney\u2019s semifinals. AFC Leopards pushed hard but unfortunately their efforts never bore any fruits at a time when Gor Mahia were launching attacks of all sorts in a bid to secure a goal. On the 42nd minute, Ismail Musa put the Maurice Onyango coached outfit in the lead. He simply tapped in a rebound past Bwire to give Gor Mahia an opportunity of hanging on their lead till the final whistle. They will now play against the winner between Chemlil Sugar and Ushuru FC in the semifinals.<\/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-youth-eliminate-afc-leopards\/\"\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 youth managed to put aside their tribulations as they beat arch rivals AFC Leopards 2-1 Additional Reporting from<\/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":[95,420],"class_list":["post-8781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-youth","tag-kpl-u20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781","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=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions\/8785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}