{"id":54454,"date":"2017-10-03T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54454"},"modified":"2017-10-03T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T07:00:49","slug":"draws-not-by-design-francis-songo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/03\/draws-not-by-design-francis-songo\/","title":{"rendered":"Draws not by design\u2014 Francis Songo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Strikers Team Manager, Francis Songo, has said their \u2018too many\u2019 draws are not by design, the latest being the 1-1 stalemate against Dwangwa United on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dwangwa went ahead on the half-hour mark through Jack Chiona\u2019s spot-kick after Hassan Upindi was tripped in the danger zone, before Matthews Sibale bailed out the Bankers with a late equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we should not be happy with the draw, but the way it came can be a solace to us. We have had too many draws but it is not by design,\u201d Songo said at Chitowe Ground.<\/p>\n<p>In the second-half, Silver packed their midfield and striking force after introducing Duncan Nyoni, Michael Tete and Binwell Katinji, a tactic that worked for them as they started pressurising Dwangwa.<\/p>\n<p>Dwangwa United Team Manager, Dave Mwandira, said his players lost concentration towards the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have won this game if we had utilised the chances we created,\u201d Mwandira said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Strikers Team Manager, Francis Songo, has said their \u2018too many\u2019 draws are not by design, the latest being the 1-1 stalemate against Dwangwa United on Sunday. Dwangwa went ahead on the half-hour mark through Jack Chiona\u2019s spot-kick after Hassan Upindi was tripped in the danger zone, before Matthews Sibale bailed out the Bankers with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54454","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\/54454","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=54454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54461,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54454\/revisions\/54461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}