{"id":35977,"date":"2016-11-22T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T06:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=35977"},"modified":"2016-11-22T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T06:14:38","slug":"blue-eagles-switch-to-league-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/11\/22\/blue-eagles-switch-to-league-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Eagles switch to league race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Eagles\u2019 Assistant Coach, Wilson Chidati, has described their exit in the Fisd Challenge Cup after losing 0-1 to Be Forward Wanderers on Saturday, as a blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chidati admitted that their cup drought, stretching back to 2011 when they won the Carlsberg Cup, was worrying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is sad that we do not perform well in cup games. May be it is a blessing in disguise that we lost to Wanderers. It is time for us to focus our energy on the TNM Super League championship race,\u201d Chidati said in a post-match interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are on a good position on the log table [number two with 45 points]. On Wednesday, we are playing at home against Wanderers. I can see that Wanderers are excited with the victory, but let them visit us. We will have home ground advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the dull semifinal, Wanderers qualified to the final of the cup courtesy of Bongani Kaipa\u2019s 80th minute header from Mike Kaziputa\u2019s right flank corner-kick.<\/p>\n<p>A win tomorrow can take Eagles back to the top and displace Nyasa Big Bullets who are ahead on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles defeated Wanderers 2-1 in the league\u2019s first round at the same Blantyre venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Eagles\u2019 Assistant Coach, Wilson Chidati, has described their exit in the Fisd Challenge Cup after losing 0-1 to Be Forward Wanderers on Saturday, as a blessing in disguise. However, Chidati admitted that their cup drought, stretching back to 2011 when they won the Carlsberg Cup, was worrying. \u201cIt is sad that we do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35977","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\/35977","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=35977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35982,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977\/revisions\/35982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}