{"id":53532,"date":"2017-09-15T09:36:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=53532"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:36:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:36:24","slug":"she-flames-seek-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/she-flames-seek-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"She-Flames seek redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Women\u2019s National Football Team can put its Cosafa Women\u2019s Championship qualifying campaign on track if they beat Madagascar today.<\/p>\n<p>Having lost 6-3 to Zambia in a qualifier for Group A on Wednesday, Malawi Coach, Stuart Mbolembole, has promised to reshuffle his squad when meeting the islanders.<\/p>\n<p>Mbolembole is painfully aware that any further slip up would all but end the She- Flames\u2019 chances of qualifying for the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Only group winners will sail through to the last-four. Malawi also meets Zimbabwe on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia and Zimbabwe, who thrashed Madagascar 4-0 in another Group A clash on Wednesday, are the favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Mbolembole might wish to pay more attention to the Chisomo Kazisonga-led defence that lacked discipline and organisation at Barbourfeilds in Bulawayo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will certainly make some changes to the squad,\u201d Mbolembole said.<\/p>\n<p>Having been out of action for many months, the She- Flames struggled to cope with the She-Chipolopolo.<\/p>\n<p>But Malawi, with Sweden-based striker Tabitha Chawinga looking inspired after bagging a hat-trick on Wednesday, should find its feet against Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>Madagascar Coach, Johariniri Rakotomara, after Wednesday\u2019s game, said she was encouraged by the displays of her charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe managed to contain Zimbabwe in the first-half but we lost concentration. We were disjoined and gave away possession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goals came from crosses and we didn\u2019t defend well. We are hoping for an improved performance against Malawi,\u201d Rakotomara is quoted as saying on <em>www. herald.co.zw.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Women\u2019s National Football Team can put its Cosafa Women\u2019s Championship qualifying campaign on track if they beat Madagascar today. Having lost 6-3 to Zambia in a qualifier for Group A on Wednesday, Malawi Coach, Stuart Mbolembole, has promised to reshuffle his squad when meeting the islanders. Mbolembole is painfully aware that any further slip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53532","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\/53532","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=53532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53534,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53532\/revisions\/53534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}