Gor Mahia came back from their CAF Champions League disappointment hitting the top gear with a sublime perfomance beating Nzoia Sugar 2-0 away at the Mumias Complex. The win takes them to top of the apex in a race they want to win once again.
Mighty Kogalo had gone into match seeking to erase the ghosts of their 6-1 aggregate elimination from the CAF Champions League by USM Alger on Sunday.
Skipper Kenneth Muguna led from the front and headed in the opener in the 11th minute after Nzoia failed to clear a cross from Wellington Ochieng.
The goal gave the defending champions an opportunity to assert their dominance against a Nzoia side that looked hampered by the slippery pitch following the afternoon showers.
Midway through the first half Clifton Miheso made the game 2- 0 in favour of Steven Polack’s men as his sweetly struck free-kick curled past the wall and beyond the despairing dive of the Nzoai shot-stopper Humphrey Katasi .
Miheso who had been restored to the starting line up alongside Francis Afiriye replacing Nicholas Kipkirui and Dickson Ambundo was menacing down the right of the attack and could have doubled his tally but fizzed a shot wide.
Gor Mahia also reshuffled their pack with the tiring Lawrence Juma being replaced by Bernard Ondiek with Nzoia completing their three changes when Batts Awita came on for Boris Kwezi.
Nzoia dropped a place to 13th due to an inferior goal difference. They have four points from as many matches.
Meanwhile, Bandari, who returned to the country on Tuesday after sealing a place in the last 32 of the Confederation Cup will be back in league action this afternoon when they take on Posta Rangers.
Bernard Mwalala’s side have emerged as the biggest threat to Gor Mahia’s monopoly of the top-flight league. Unbeaten in their opening three matches of the campaign to bag seven points, Bandari will hope to jump as high as first in the table should they manage to get past Posta.
The mailmen themselves will be keen to return to winning ways after they tasted their first defeat of the campaign at the hands of Western Stima last time out.
