{"id":992,"date":"2012-09-22T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T15:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=992"},"modified":"2012-09-22T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T15:51:38","slug":"gor-mahia-edge-afc-in-crucial-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-edge-afc-in-crucial-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia edge AFC in crucial derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/akumu-wanga-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>A fine display at the Tusker Premier League (TPL) encounter at the Moi International Sports Centre (MISC) Kasarani between AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia ended 2 \u2013 1 in favour of K\u2019Ogalo as the team in green registered their 14<sup>th<\/sup> unbeaten game in the league.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rama goal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first half belonged to Gor Mahia as they run AFC Leopards rugged; and they were duly rewarded in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> minute when a miss by Rwandan international Jonas Nahimana after a fine first touch allowed Kevin Omondi to steal the ball and race through.<\/p>\n<p>Omondi\u2019s shot with just Patrick Matasi to beat was tipped to the post by the keeper and the rebound rolled on to Ugandan born forward Dan Sserunkuma for the easiest of tap ins, a big gift, and his celebration said it all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jerim Save<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leopards quickly shifted gears and initiated attacks of their own. A notable one was on 24 minutes when Bernard Mang\u2019oli crossed from the right but Allan Wanga\u2019s well placed header was equally superbly saved by Jerim Onyango for a corner which was eventually cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes later, Rama Salim\u2019s cross from a free kick was punched out for a corner unconvincingly by Matasi for a corner. Moses Odhiambo stepped forth and took the corner short to Sserunkuma who took a first touch then left Mang\u2019oli for dead with the second before releasing a cracker of a shot to the top right corner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Half time lead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All was fine for K\u2019Ogalo that far as they headed to the break with a healthy lead.<\/p>\n<p>The tables were however turned in the second half; AFC Leopards coach Jan Koops withdrew Idrissa Rajab and Floribert Tambwe for Abbas Kiwalaabye and Paul Were respectively and Gor Mahia lived dangerously thereafter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baraza goal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sustained periods of pressure led to a Donald Mosoti blunder in the 57<sup>th<\/sup> minute as he misjudged a through pass to allow Mike Baraza in. The Kenyan international calmly raced through to slot AFC Leopards first goal.<\/p>\n<p>Another defensive mix up on 74 minutes allowed AFC Leopards captain Martin Imbalambala to win the ball on the right channel and his low cross sailed across the face of goal just begging to be tapped in but Mike Baraza, the target was too far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lavatsa miss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edwin Lavatsa a second half substitute in place of Sserunkuma should have sealed the game for Gor Mahia after leaving Nahimana crawling on the deck but he opted for a shot from a tight angle with Rama Salim shouting for a pass and Matasi made a rare save.<\/p>\n<p>After the win Gor Mahia goes top momentarily with 46 points from 25 matches as AFC Leopards drop a place to third with 45 points.<\/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-afc-in-crucial-derby\/\"\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 A fine display at the Tusker Premier League (TPL) encounter at the Moi International Sports Centre (MISC)<\/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-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}