The TNM Super League first-round wound up on Sunday with Be Forward Wanderers and Silver Strikers sharing the spoils after a goal-less draw at Bingu National Stadium.<\/p>\n
Wanderers finished on top with 35 points, two points above second-placed Silver who are, so far, the only unbeaten side in the league.<\/p>\n
The leaders won 11 games more than any other team followed by Silver (nine wins) and Nyasa Big Bullets with eight victories.<\/p>\n
The Bankers and the Nomads conceded six goals each in 15 games. Silver scored 21 goals whereas the Nomads have netted 20 goals. Silver\u2019s goal-difference is 15 against Wanderers\u201914.<\/p>\n
Silver have drawn six games whereas Wanderers lost two games against Civil Sporting Club (2-0) and Bullets (1-0) and drew once.<\/p>\n
Fifth-placed Civil Sporting Club scored the highest number of goals, 25. Out of 120 games, 269 goals were scored in the first-round.<\/p>\n
Wanderers Coach, Yasin Osman, refused to get carried away.<\/p>\n
Silver Team Manager, Francis Songo, said his side would come back stronger in the second-round.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a good result for us considering that we have not lost a game in the first- round. It will be easy for us to polish few areas ahead of the second-round,\u201d Songo said.<\/p>\n
Although it is too early to predict the winner of the league championship, the top-three teams are favourites going into the second-round.<\/p>\n
At this stage, it would be a grave mistake to rule out defending champions, Kamuzu Barracks (KB), who have finished the first-round on position eight with 21 points, 14 points behind Wanderers.<\/p>\n
Last season, KB finished on a similar position but launched a serious title challenge to win the league with 61 points.<\/p>\n
At the bottom, rookies Chitipa United, Dwangwa United and Blantyre United share a lot in common.<\/p>\n
Chitipa anchor the table with 11 points, have won three games, drawn twice and lost 10 games, conceded 27 goals just like Dwangwa and BT United.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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