Gor Mahia will host AFC Leopards at Kasarani Stadium on Sunday for the 94th Mashemeji Derby starting at 3 PM EAT, a match whose venue was unknown until Wednesday this week when K’Ogalo announced that they would be staging the match at the 60,000 seater stadium.Technically, both teams are out of the title race although Gor Mahia have a mathematical chance of landing their hands on their 20th in the event that they win all their remaining matches while Kakamega Homeboyz and Tusker falter and fail to hit 64 points.AFC Leopards boss on why the team has been losing derbiesWhile Ingwe will be hoping to end to what has been a turbulent spell for them in the derby as they have not beaten Gor Mahia since March 2016 when Lamine Diallo came off the bench to score the sole goal for the then depleted Ingwe side for a shock win, K’Ogalo aim to continue their dominance over their archrivals whose squad woes could be said to be slightly similar to that of their last one in the derby winning outing.Apart from that, Gor will be out to complete a season double over Leopards while the 12-time champions will be out to avenge the first leg 1-0 defeat at the same venue, a time when AFC were probably at their worst for the campaign.Gad confident of Gor’s success in the Mashemeji DerbyGor Mahia’s English manager Andreas Spier will be up against his Belgian counterpart at Ingwe’s camp Patrick Aussems, with the latter being the one among the two to have been in charge in a Mashemeji Derby before.Ahead of the match, the AFC Leopards head coach is hoping that fans will fill Kasarani for the match, noting that this is the best time for the biggest match on the land.”It is always the time to win a game, Gor Mahia or any other team, I don’t care who the opponent is. But I understand that this is a special game for a lot of people and I hope the stadium will be full for the game and I think is the right moment to have a football game between the biggest two clubs in Kenya,” Aussems stated.Aussems hoping for a full stadium for the Mashemeji DerbyIn the AFC camp, only one player -Joachim Oluoch- has tasted victory in the Mashemeji Derby, and he did so while turning out for Gor Mahia before crossing over to Ingwe.
