Despite claiming a 1-0 win over Coast Combined in their first pre-season encounter, Gor Mahia head coach Jonathan McKinstry has asked everyone at the club to raise their game.A Benson Omala goal in the first half was all that K’Ogalo needed to claim the win over a side that had the best players picked from the six constituencies in Mombasa.Gor Mahia earn Ksh 500,000 after victory in pre-season friendlyMcKinstry admitted that Gor Mahia have been a pale shadow of themselves in the last two seasons as he called on the coaching staff and players to pull up their socks.“There is huge levels of improvements in all areas, that is not to say that the players are performing poorly, I just think that there is so much more we can give,I do not think that anyone would disagree that in the last two years have been below the level that Gor have been used to in recent times and there is definitely more to come from us and I’m challenging all players to take their game to the next level,” said McKinstry.##NAJAVA_MECA_6534050##The win over Coast Combined earned Gor Mahia Ksh 500,000 as the tournament was organized to commission the new RG Ngala Stadium with the game being played under floodlights.The Northern Irish coach noted that the game will help him better understand his squad having barely been in charge of K’Ogalo for less than a week.Gor Mahia to play Coast Combined in first test match under Jonathan McKinstry“It was a good workout for the boys. We changed the entire team at half time and brought 23 players with most of them got 45 minutes and some 20 to 25 minutes. It allowed me to see the boys after being here for only two days. I’m taking a lot of notes from the game and definitely a number of players have shown that they should be playing in the team once the season starts,” added McKinstry.
