{"id":894,"date":"2012-09-05T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=894"},"modified":"2012-09-06T02:27:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T02:27:45","slug":"gor-mahia-edge-ulinzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-edge-ulinzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia edge Ulinzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/images.supersport.com\/Gor-Ali-Abondo-celebrates-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Premier League (KPL) giants Gor Mahia registered their 12<sup>th<\/sup> unbeaten game in the league with a well earned 1 \u2013 0 win over Ulinzi Stars in the match played at the City Stadium on Wednesday 5 September.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Survived scare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia got the biggest chunk of clear cut chances in the opening half though Ulinzi Stars were dominant in possession but couldn\u2019t make it count as the army side survived a scare on ten minutes when Ali Abondo\u2019s long shot went straight to Jacktone Odhiambo.<\/p>\n<p>Ulinzi Stars were once again let off the hook when, in the 29<sup>th<\/sup> minute Stephen Ocholla, already on a yellow hauled down Gor Mahia striker Dan Serunkuma in what looked like a clear bookable offence in\u00a0 a first half that saw very few clear cut chances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rama injury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the game headed to the break Rama Salim walked off with a bloody nose, the after effects of a challenge by Kevin Ouma and Gor Mahia thereafter survived a late scare as Lawrence Owino\u2019s shot following a defensive mixup narrowly missed the target.<\/p>\n<p>The second half sprung to life with Gor Mahia showing more vigour and created their first chance in the 48<sup>th<\/sup> minute falling on Dan Serunkuma but the Ugandan shot weakly with Jacktone Odhiambo closing in on him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Withdrawn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four minutes later he was withdrawn for Edwin Lavatsa as Gor Mahia piled the pressure on the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>On the hour mark Kevin Omondi, another second half substitute picked out Victor Ali with a defence splitting pass, the former Tusker midfielder took a touch then perfectly picked his spot to give Gor Mahia the lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lavatsa disallowed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ulinzi, sensing defeat launched a series of attacks of their own but Jerim Onyango was equal to the task saving well from a close range Lawrence Owino shot and Lavatsa, on 85 minutes put the ball in the net but his attempt was ruled out for a handball.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia held on to go joint second with Tusker, on 40 points as Ulinzi remained rooted sixth with 37 points having gone three games without a goal.<\/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-edge-ulinzi\/\"\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>courtesy of futaa.com Kenyan Premier League (KPL) giants Gor Mahia registered their 12th unbeaten game in the league with a<\/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-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","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=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}