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Creative midfielder scored in each half to halt K'Ogalo's two game winless run.
Record Kenyan champions Gor Mahia halted their two match win-less run with a clinical 2-0 dispatch of rivals Kariobangi Sharks in a Sunday afternoon FKF Premier League tie at Kasarani.
After losing to Kakamega Homeboyz in the FKF Cup and sharing spoils with Sofapaka K’Ogalo moved swiftly to ease lingering doubts over their title credentials with a goal in each half to claim three points and buttress their FKF Premier League lead.
Recalled to the starting line-up after several successive snubs, creative midfielder Austin Odhiambo put Gor Mahia in pole position with a well taken goal after 24 minutes. Sharks failed to heed a warning earlier delivered when Alpha Onyango rattled the post in the 20th minute.
They failed to man mark K’Ogalo players during a corner kick leaving the creative Odhiambo to glance his header into the back of the net.
Sharks huffed and puffed but failed to reclaim parity and K’Ogalo took their narrow lead into the breather. A spirited onslaught at the start of the 2nd half yielded nothing much for Sharks and Gor Mahia compounded their despair when Odhiambo registered his brace in the 69th minute.
Diminutive winger Boniface Omondi jumped on his bike down the right, floated a teasing ball in the area that the league’s leading scorer Benson Omala just missed. Odhiambo who was lurking at the edge of the latched on to it and slotted home for his and K’Ogalo’s second.
The second goal came just ten minutes into the second half and Gor Mahia got the luxury of changing personnel.
Omala and Ugandan Peter Lwasa made way for new boy Kaddu and youngster Lloyd Kavuchi in the 69th minute.
Kavuchi quickly got into the referee's books for illegally thwarting what would have been a quick restart of play by Sharks goalkeeper.
The William Muluya coached side tried very much to claw their way back in vain and K'Ogalo further shut shop by hooking off Shafik Kagimu for Ernest Wendo. Gor Mahia expertly managed the remainder of the game and claimed their win.
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