{"id":9145,"date":"2016-12-27T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2016-12-27T22:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T22:08:57","slug":"gor-mahia-u20-through-to-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-u20-through-to-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia U20 through to semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 579px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/u20-muho-16.jpg\" width=\"579\" height=\"386\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gor Mahia line-up before the match<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Odhiambo KGM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Gor Mahia Youth team continued their march towards the KPL U20 title when they beat Muhoroni Youth U20 \u00a01-0 in a quarter-final match played at Camp Toyoyo on Tuesday. The soliatary goal came in the 80th minute.<br \/>\nAdditional Reporting from futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Edwin Musyoki grabbed the match winner within four minutes of entering the field of play as Gor Mahia downed Muhoroni 1-0 in the KPL U 20 quarterfinal clash played this Tuesday at Camp Toyoyo.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia were slow to assert their dominance in the match as Muho forceda couple efforts on target.<\/p>\n<p>Gor&#8217;s best chance saw a tricky curling effort from Hillary Ojwang stinging the crossbar on its way out in the balanced first half action.<br \/>\nMuho kicked the second half on a double change with Kamau Peter and Andrew Victor sent on but the first half slow encounter proved the case in the early exchanges of the final half.<\/p>\n<p>The first chance at goal however fell on Gor. Teddy Osok beat his marker but his deft cross close range got cleared despite causing a brief confusion at Muho&#8217;s goal mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Gor&#8217;s mounting dominance almost paid off at the hour mark but keeper Taribo West did well to turn behind a fierce shot from Hillary Ojwang.<br \/>\nAlexander Abok was next in the guilty list as he poked over the bar from close range as Gor Mahia got of the hook at the far end.<\/p>\n<p>Nashon Thiong&#8217;o should have scored from arguably the games best chance but the competition&#8217;s joint top scorer went for far too much after beating the keeper, allowing Muho back line to clear their lines for a corner.<br \/>\nOsok Out for Musyoki<br \/>\nGor Mahia opted to rejig the team a bit as a Teddy Osok, visibly on his last legs was replaced by Edwin Musyoki.<\/p>\n<p>A move that would pass for a normal build up play later saw the new entrant pick up a backward pass from his captain Alpha Onyango, it however turned the master stroke that unlocked the clash.<\/p>\n<p>The midfielder had perhaps noted of the keeper&#8217;s struggles in dealing with first time shot and when his 80th minute shot from range proved the case as it slipped between the keeper&#8217;s grasp .<\/p>\n<p>Muho intent was well blunted by the late goal and Gor&#8217;s quest for doubling the result ended with another chance crashing off the bar.<br \/>\nThe victory was ultimately realised as Gor claim a semid spot for the third time of the competition.<\/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-u20-through-to-semis\/\"\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>The Gor Mahia Youth team continued their march towards the KPL U20 title when they beat Muhoroni Youth U20 \u00a01-0<\/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":[423,95],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gor-mahia-u20","tag-gor-mahia-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","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=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}