{"id":45001,"date":"2017-04-24T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=45001"},"modified":"2017-04-24T09:37:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:37:35","slug":"limbikani-mzava-wins-battle-of-malawians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/04\/24\/limbikani-mzava-wins-battle-of-malawians\/","title":{"rendered":"Limbikani Mzava wins battle of Malawians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Limbikani Mzava marshalled South Africa\u2019s Golden Arrows\u2019 defence to prevent fellow Malawians, Robert Ng\u2019ambi and Gerald Phiri junior, from advancing to the Nedbank Cup semi-finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Arrows grabbed a first-half winner through Captain, Musa Bilankulu\u2019s header to dump out Stars, who featured Ng\u2019ambi and Phiri in attack, at the Prince Magogo Stadium in Durban.<\/p>\n<p>Phiri and Ng\u2019ambi played the entire game whereas former Nyasa Big Bullets skipper, Chiukepo Msowoya, was an unused substitute for Arrows.<\/p>\n<p>In another quarter-final, Malawian striker Atusaye Nyondo came off the bench in place of Ayanda Dlamini in the 84th, but the former Silver Strikers player could not prevent Blomfontein Celtic from losing 2-1 to Orlando Pirates on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Abbubaker Mobara and Thamsanqa Gabuza helped Pirates reach the semi-finals, joining SuperSport United, Chippa United and Arrows.<\/p>\n<p>Mzava is expected to lead the Flames in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, whose group stage matches get underway in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Limbikani Mzava marshalled South Africa\u2019s Golden Arrows\u2019 defence to prevent fellow Malawians, Robert Ng\u2019ambi and Gerald Phiri junior, from advancing to the Nedbank Cup semi-finals on Saturday. Arrows grabbed a first-half winner through Captain, Musa Bilankulu\u2019s header to dump out Stars, who featured Ng\u2019ambi and Phiri in attack, at the Prince Magogo Stadium in Durban. [&hellip;]<\/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-45001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001","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=45001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45004,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45001\/revisions\/45004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}