{"id":8792,"date":"2016-08-25T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2016-08-25T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:07:06","slug":"gotv-shield-match-a-must-win-for-gor-mahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gotv-shield-match-a-must-win-for-gor-mahia\/","title":{"rendered":"GoTV Shield match a must win for Gor Mahia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gotv-shield.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia are currently preparing for their GoTV shield round of 16 match against Nzoia United. The match will be played this Sunday. Gor Mahia have been lackluster of late.Thankfully they have had some time off to sort out their midfield and attack issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are aiming to go past the round of sixteen meaning we have to win this match at all costs. It is a fact we have been shooting blanks in our past matches, but that has to change this weekend against Nzoia.&#8221; said Mathew Ottamax to goal.com<\/p>\n<p>And Nzoia who are currently leading the second tier league and are gunning for promotion will not be an easy task as goalkeeping Mathew Ottamax points out<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are Kenyan champions and we have to show that against them.\u00a0They might be riding high in the second tier, but we have to show that we are one step ahead,&#8221; Ottamax said to goal.com<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately they have had to do it without coach Ze Maria who traveled to Brazil and has been away for almost a week. He was scheduled to return on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is nothing serious at all, he had family issues which he has gone to solve but we are expecting him back\u00a0tomorrow (Wednesday) to prepare the team for the weekend&#8217;s assignment. There is nothing alarming at all, he is still our head coach,&#8221; said Ronald Ngala to goal.com<\/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\/gotv-shield-match-a-must-win-for-gor-mahia\/\"\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 are currently preparing for their GoTV shield round of 16 match against Nzoia United. The match will be<\/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":[434,442],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2016-gotv-shield","tag-mathew-ottamax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","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=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8793,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/8793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}