{"id":54774,"date":"2017-10-09T11:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=54774"},"modified":"2017-10-09T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:34:46","slug":"flames-finishing-can-improve-james-sangala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/10\/09\/flames-finishing-can-improve-james-sangala\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames\u2019 finishing can improve\u2014 James Sangala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M<\/strong>alawi\u2019s Flames Team Manager, James Sangala, has said the team can do better on finishing.<\/p>\n<p>Sangala said this yesterday when asked about Saturday\u2019s 1-1 draw against Tanzania\u2019s Taifa Stars, in a friendly match played at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played well in the first-half, enjoying a lot of possession. We have the organisation, we could pass the ball and defend in the manner which the coach [Ronny van Geneugden] expected,\u201d Sangala said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, in the second-half, we got carried away and reduced the tempo of the game. We were getting into the D-zone but our creation of scoring chances was not good enough. I think we got carried away with our first-half performance. This is an area we can improve on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Africa-based midfielder Robert Ng\u2019ambi scored with a stunning dipping header after connecting Richard Mbulu\u2019s cross from the right-wing, only for complacency to creep into the Flames\u2019 play who allowed the hosts to equalise through Simon Msuva in the second-half.<\/p>\n<p>Ng\u2019ambi missed some decent headers in the game which saw tempers flare after Tanzania\u2019s equalising goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames\u2019 coaching panel thought the ball did not cross the line but the referee awarded it. Tanzania Football Federation has since apologised for the general poor officiation.<\/p>\n<p>Van Geneugden was sent off after heated exchanges with the officiating personnel which had cautioned him for stepping on the pitch during the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s Flames Team Manager, James Sangala, has said the team can do better on finishing. Sangala said this yesterday when asked about Saturday\u2019s 1-1 draw against Tanzania\u2019s Taifa Stars, in a friendly match played at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam. \u201cWe played well in the first-half, enjoying a lot of possession. We have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54774","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\/54774","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=54774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54780,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54774\/revisions\/54780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}