When Gor Mahia head coach Charles Akonnor named his team for their season opener against Murang’a Seal on Tuesday, 13 October, talks centered around those missing rather than those named in the team.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsIn particular, Harambee Stars duo of goalkeeper Byrne Omondi and defender Mike Kibwage were nowhere in the team even as talks of their suspension by the club continued to dominate both social and mainstream media.The two players were allegedly suspended following a poor performance in their CAF Champions League (CAF CL) second leg 5-1 loss to Pyramids.While Harambee Stars coach Benni McCarthy overlooked the suspension and called them to the national team, Gor Mahia seemed not to be done with them, a matter that forced Akonnor to shed light on, in his address to the press after the M-seal match.Gor Mahia winger eyes improvement despite opening new season with brace“They are all back. It was a situation of the management and the players and sometimes we the technical bench do not have control. Management has authority even over us.They can punish anybody they want because they feed us and we have to respect them but there have been discussions and now everything is under control,” said Akonnor.While he clarified that the suspension was not a decision of the technical bench, the Ghanaian tactician admitted that his post match-reaction from the Pyramids game played a part in catalyzing the matter.##NAJAVA_MECA_10027907##“No. It was not my decision (to suspend the duo). What I did after the Pyramids game in terms of mentioning names is unlike me as I do not like mentioning players but emotions were on but now we have calmed down and the atmosphere is good," he remarked.Despite the duo’s absence, Gor Mahia went ahead to cruise to a comfortable 4-2 win over M-seal courtesy of a Shariff Musa brace as well as a goal apiece by Alpha Onyango and Jackson Dwang’ with Josephat Lopaga scoring a brace for M-Seal.How Murang'a Seal used former Gor Mahia forward to threaten late comeback
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