AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia made good their threat have made good of their threat not to honor the Mashemeji Derby league clash and played to a dull friendly match at the Toyoyo Ground in Jericho, Nairobi on Saturday afternoon.Seems like AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia have made good their threat of not honoring the #MashemejiDerby and opted to play a friendly match at Toyoyo instead. Someone needs to press the reset button on Kenyan football— Jeff Kinyanjui (@Nyash88) July 31, 2021 The two teams had warned that they would boycott the match if the FKF Cup winner’s and runners’ up money was not released by FKF by close of business on Friday.FKF warn Gor and Ingwe of dire repercussions if they boycott the Mashemeji DerbyIn a rejoinder, FKF warned of dire consequences if the two teams boycotted the match. In a letter seen by Mozzart Sport, the federation had on 8th July promised to wire the money by 5th August but the two clubs wanted to be paid before then. Gor, the winners are entitled to Ksh. 2 million while AFC Leopards are set to get 1 million. Third place Bidco United and Equity FC in fourth position are set to get 750,000 and 500,000 respectively.Three halves? Yes, it is just a friendly matchThe friendly match was played in three halves of 30 minutes each. The first was largely colorless with most of the action taking part in the middle of the park and ended in a barren stalemate. Two minutes into the second half, Gor Mahia went ahead through Samuel Onyango who rose high to head a Jules Ulimwengu’s cross past John Oyemba on AFC Leopards goal.Both teams continued to refresh their teams by making endless subs. Gor for example afforded to give fringe players likes of Victor Ayugi, Fred Nkata, John Ochieng, Samuel Njau and Nicholas Omondi some run in.Ingwe had a chance to earn a draw in the third half but Dan Sanguti hit the side net from a very prime position.
