Flames star forward, Gabadinho Mhango, on Tuesday scored when his South African Absa Premier Soccer League (PSL) side, Bidvest Wits, beat Golden Arrows 3-0 to revive his Golden Boot Award dream.<\/p>\n
Gabadinho took his league tally to nine goals, three behind Orlando Pirates\u2019 leading scorer, Tendai Ndoro.<\/p>\n
Before Tuesday\u2019s game, the former Nyasa Big Bullets FC player had last scored in a game against Bloemfontein Celtic on March 3.<\/p>\n
Gabadinho converted a penalty in the 21st minute following a handball by Arrows defender, Trevor Mathiane.<\/p>\n
However, the referee incorrectly cautioned Arrows\u2019 Malawian defender, Limbikani Mzava, for the offence.<\/p>\n
In the second-half, Gabadinho then provided assists for his colleague, Mogakolodi Ngele, to hit a second-half brace.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview, Gabadinho said it would not be easy to win the Golden Boot Award.<\/p>\n
He admitted that he was under pressure to maintain the form of last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cScoring requires hard work because you meet hard-tackling defenders. It is true that I was quiet in as far as scoring is concerned, but I am sure that if I can play my cards well, I can make it because the current top goal scorer would not be scoring in every game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In a post-match interview with SuperSport Television<\/em>, Wi ts Coach, Gavin Hunt, praised his charges for the win, which took them to the top of the table.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought we were excellent in the first-half. Shape was good, we played well and created three unbelievable chances. Gaba [Mhango] had an unbelievable chance in the first-half but he kept working,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n Wits have returned to the top of the PSL with 44 points from 21 matches, replacing Cape Town City who have 42 points from 22 matches.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, striker Chiukepo Msowoya is yet to score in five PSL matches for Arrows. He came off the bench in the last stages of the game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Msowoya, who signed a six-month contract a few months ago, is under pressure to impress Arrows management.<\/p>\n However, Mzava, has downplayed Msowoya \u2019s struggles, saying he will catch up in the remaining games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Flames star forward, Gabadinho Mhango, on Tuesday scored when his South African Absa Premier Soccer League (PSL) side, Bidvest Wits, beat Golden Arrows 3-0 to revive his Golden Boot Award dream. Gabadinho took his league tally to nine goals, three behind Orlando Pirates\u2019 leading scorer, Tendai Ndoro. Before Tuesday\u2019s game, the former Nyasa Big Bullets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44330","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\/44330","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=44330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44359,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44330\/revisions\/44359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}