{"id":42808,"date":"2017-03-20T08:51:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=42808"},"modified":"2017-03-20T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T06:51:33","slug":"bitter-sweet-for-robert-ngambi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/20\/bitter-sweet-for-robert-ngambi\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter sweet for Robert Ng\u00e1mbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In-form Malawian midfielder Robert Ng\u00e1mbi was sent off on Saturday when his South Africa\u2019s Platinum Stars defeated visiting Ugandan side, Vipers SC, 3-1 at Royal Bafokeng Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ng\u2019ambi was sent off deep into stoppage time for picking up two yellow cards. However, the good news is that Stars progressed to the next round of the Caf Confederation Cup 3-2 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>Stars, whose other Malawian midfielder Gerald Phiri Junior was not registered for the competition, lost 1-0 in the first leg of the preliminary round.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Stars owed their win to goalkeeper Mbongeni Mzimela who scored two penalties, according to South Africa media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mzimela converted the first penalty after two minutes following the visitors\u2019 foul on Benson Shilongo.<\/p>\n<p>Stars added the second 31 minutes later through striker Ndumiso Mabena\u2019s cracking goal from a direct free-kick.<\/p>\n<p>The Ugandans scored in the 55th minute only for Stars to increase the lead through Mzimela\u2019s second penalty which sent the South Africans through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-form Malawian midfielder Robert Ng\u00e1mbi was sent off on Saturday when his South Africa\u2019s Platinum Stars defeated visiting Ugandan side, Vipers SC, 3-1 at Royal Bafokeng Stadium. Ng\u2019ambi was sent off deep into stoppage time for picking up two yellow cards. However, the good news is that Stars progressed to the next round of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42808","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\/42808","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=42808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42811,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42808\/revisions\/42811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}