{"id":28306,"date":"2016-07-19T12:02:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=28306"},"modified":"2016-07-19T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T10:02:44","slug":"richard-mbulu-eyes-20-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/07\/19\/richard-mbulu-eyes-20-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Mbulu eyes 20 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mafco FC striker, Richard Mbulu, has set himself a target of 20 goals by the end of the 2016 TNM Super League season.<\/p>\n<p>Mbulu has scored nine goals in 13 games, the latest being in a 2-1 win over deposed leaders, Blue Eagles, in Dwangwa on Sunday. And he is not looking back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am eyeing the Golden Boot Award. I will try to continue scoring so that I can achieve that goal. I do not want any player to surpass me,\u201d Mbulu said.<\/p>\n<p>The forward has made it three goals in two consecutive games having scored twice in a 5-0 win over Karonga United at Mzuzu Stadium last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Salima soldiers are second on the table with 25 points from 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Mafco have won seven games, drawn four and lost twice and coach Thomas Maloya is happy with the progress.<\/p>\n<p>On the list of scorers, Mbulu is followed by Kamuzu Barracks\u2019 Manasseh Chiyesa with seven goals just like Be Forward Wanderers\u2019 Peter Wadadwa.<\/p>\n<p>Epac\u2019s Anthony Banda, Moyale Barracks\u2019 Khuda Muyaba and Chiukepo Msowoya for Nyasa Bullets have six goals each.<\/p>\n<p>Msowoya and Innocent Bokosi from Red Lions were joint-top scorers with 16 goals last season. No striker has scored more than 18 league goals for over a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mafco FC striker, Richard Mbulu, has set himself a target of 20 goals by the end of the 2016 TNM Super League season. Mbulu has scored nine goals in 13 games, the latest being in a 2-1 win over deposed leaders, Blue Eagles, in Dwangwa on Sunday. And he is not looking back. \u201cI am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28306","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\/28306","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=28306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28309,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306\/revisions\/28309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}