{"id":55781,"date":"2017-11-07T10:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T08:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=55781"},"modified":"2017-11-07T10:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T08:14:50","slug":"silver-strikers-in-soul-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/silver-strikers-in-soul-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Strikers in soul-searching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Strikers\u2019 interim General Secretary, Thabo Nyirenda, has said he is puzzled by the team\u2019s poor form in the TNM Super League\u2019s second-round.<\/p>\n<p>Nyirenda showed surprise on Friday, a day after Silver drew 1-1 against Moyale Barracks at Silver Stadium in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not know what is exactly happening to the players because they are getting everything. We feel that there is a serious lack of commitment on the part of the players. The title is slowly getting out of our hands. Our chances are in other teams\u2019 hands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match reaction after the game against Moyale, Silver Team Manager, Francis Songo, refused to throw in the towel, saying the title race was still open.<\/p>\n<p>Silver Captain, Blessings Tembo, said he was also equally disappointed by the team\u2019s performance in the league, but hoped that they would bounce back<\/p>\n<p>The Central Bankers have gone three consecutive games without a win, having also lost 1-0 to Red Lions and drew 1-1 against Blantyre United.<\/p>\n<p>With six games to go, Silver are third with 47 points, eight points behind leaders Be Forward Wanderers. Silver have lost once, posted 12 wins and 11 draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Strikers\u2019 interim General Secretary, Thabo Nyirenda, has said he is puzzled by the team\u2019s poor form in the TNM Super League\u2019s second-round. Nyirenda showed surprise on Friday, a day after Silver drew 1-1 against Moyale Barracks at Silver Stadium in Lilongwe. \u201cWe do not know what is exactly happening to the players because they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55781","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\/55781","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=55781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55783,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55781\/revisions\/55783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}