{"id":25323,"date":"2016-05-31T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T09:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=25323"},"modified":"2016-05-31T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T09:16:04","slug":"red-lions-coach-in-soul-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/05\/31\/red-lions-coach-in-soul-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Lions coach in soul-searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Lions coach Mike Kumanga says there is need to hold crisis talks to find factors contributing to the team\u2019s poor showing in the TNM Super League.<\/p>\n<p>The former Flames and Moyale Barracks left-back made the call after watching his troops lose 1-2 to Silver Strikers at Balaka Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Lions have six points from eight games while Silver rose to position two on the log table with 16 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just can\u2019t understand what is happening to the team. I think we need to discuss as a team. The executive should call us and summon the players as well,\u201d Kumanga said.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Prichard Mwansa chipped in: \u201cWe did not make many changes to the squad, but the players cannot replicate last season\u2019s form. There must be something wrong in the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silver scored through Matthew Sibale and Blessings Tembo whereas Gibson Nkhonjera pulled one back for the Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Lions coach Mike Kumanga says there is need to hold crisis talks to find factors contributing to the team\u2019s poor showing in the TNM Super League. The former Flames and Moyale Barracks left-back made the call after watching his troops lose 1-2 to Silver Strikers at Balaka Stadium on Saturday. Lions have six points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25328,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25323\/revisions\/25328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}