Striker Peter Wadabwa\u2019s double earned Be Forward Wanderers a 2-0 win over Azam Tigers at Kamuzu Stadium on Sunday to keep the Nomads\u2019 title dream alive.<\/p>\n
The Nomads are six points behind leaders, Mafco.<\/p>\n
Wanderers, who have played 24 games, remain sixth with 38 points. Tigers dropped from ninth to 10th place with 31 points from 23 games.<\/p>\n
Having given Nyasa Big Bullets a huge scare the previous week, much was expected from Tigers, but a combination of unforced errors and a blunt frontline undermined their cause.<\/p>\n
Tigers\u2019 Coach, Gerald Phiri, admitted that his charges did not step up to the plate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did not play our usual game. I do not know why. Maybe the guys were afraid of the big names. We did not create enough scoring chances. We played well but it is all nothing if you do not win,\u201d Phiri said.<\/p>\n
The Kau Kau hardly registered a shot on target but missed through Bright Munthali and Alex Mkorongo\u2019s wayward shots.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Peter Cholopi had his goal-bound shot cleared off the line by Wanderers\u2019 defender, Lewis Minjale.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Jabulani Linje won Wanderers a penalty after he was fouled by Bonda Mpinganjira in the 35th minute. Wadabwa stepped forward to hit the ball past Tigers\u2019 goalkeeper, William Thole.<\/p>\n
Wanderers, who featured Goalkeepers\u2019 Trainer, Vales Kamzere between the sticks, led 1-0 at half-time. It took five minutes into the second half for Wadabwa to take his tally for the season to 14 goals, three behind leading scorer, Richard Mbulu.<\/p>\n
Wadabwa defended from the front, forcing Tigers\u2019 captain Clifford Kankhuni to misplace a ball which the striker snatched before blasting his shot past Thole at the near post.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, it was now a question of game management for Wanderers\u2019 Coach, Yasin Osman, who has in five games won four and lost once. Osman pulled out Alfred Manyozo jnr for Ernest Tambe whereas Linje left the pitch for Rafik Namwela. The substitutes were tasked with keeping possession.<\/p>\n
Tigers: <\/strong>Thole, Kankhuni, Cholopi, Nickson Mwase, Mpinganjira, Patrick Gunde (Mkorongo), Peter Mpulula, Yamikani Chester, Precious Phiri (Elia Munthali), Munthali, Dan Kumwenda.<\/p>\n Wanderers: <\/strong>Kamzere, Minjale, Francis Mlimbika, Bongani Kayipa, Stanley Sanudi, Manyozo (Tambe), Mike Kaziputa, Joseph Kamwendo, Jimmy Zakazaka (Felix Zulu), Wadabwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Striker Peter Wadabwa\u2019s double earned Be Forward Wanderers a 2-0 win over Azam Tigers at Kamuzu Stadium on Sunday to keep the Nomads\u2019 title dream alive. The Nomads are six points behind leaders, Mafco. Wanderers, who have played 24 games, remain sixth with 38 points. Tigers dropped from ninth to 10th place with 31 points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34614","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=34614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34620,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34614\/revisions\/34620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}