Be Forward Wanderers failed to salvage pride after they lost 1-2 to AS Vita of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a Caf Champions League preliminary round match played at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Following the defeat, the Nomads have exited the tournament after losing 6-1 on aggregate, having lost the first-leg 4-0 in the DRC last week.<\/p>\n
The Nomads were hoping for a draw to go out of the competition with dignity but substitute Jonathan Baogi netted the winner towards the end of the game.<\/p>\n
Peter Wadabwa had cancelled out Mundele Naku\u2019s 19th minute opener but Baogi outpaced Wanderers defenders, who had failed to read his run from deep, with six minutes to full time.<\/p>\n
It was job done and dusted for the visitors as they enjoyed dancing time as if they were in Kinshasa.<\/p>\n
For Nomads players, it was bad day at the office and they trooped out of the stadium crest fallen.<\/p>\n
The Nomads started the game with a single striker, Wadabwa, and they lacked fire-power upfront. They sat back as they failed to penetrate Vita\u2019s half.<\/p>\n
The system made life difficult for Wadabwa as, every time he had the ball, he was overpowered by the Vita defence led by Bangala Litomboy, Djuna Shabani and Manganga Omba.<\/p>\n
Wanderers\u2019 only hope in the first-half was when Captain Joseph Kamwendo hit the crossbar from a free-kick on the edge of the box.<\/p>\n
But it only took the visitors 19 minutes to unlock Wanderers\u2019 defence after Naku pounced on a loose ball to beat Richard Chipuwa, who was helpless.<\/p>\n
After recess, Wanderers played with renewed purpose as they pinned Vita in their own half.<\/p>\n
Three minutes after recess, Wadabwa levelled the score with a fine header when he received a beautiful cross from left-back Precious Sambani.<\/p>\n
The goal energised Wanderers as they exchanged good passes. Veteran forward Esau Kanyenda forced Vita goalkeeper Lukong Nelson to make a reflex save.<\/p>\n
Wadabwa, Yamikani Chester, Alfred Manyozo Junior, Harry Nyirenda and Lucky Malata had a grand game for Wanderers.<\/p>\n
After the game, Wanderers assistant Coach, Bob Mpinganjira, said his charges played well but Vita utilised their chances.<\/p>\n
Head Coach Yasin Osman missed the match because he was ill.<\/p>\n
\u201cI salute my players because they gave everything but Vita got their chances and converted them into goals. We have learnt [a lot] and if we apply it in the TNM Super League, we can do better, \u201cMpinganjira said.<\/p>\n
Vita Coach, Jean Florent Ibenge, said the players played according to the game plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not a simple game but I am happy that we scored two goals. In the first-half, Wanderers were keeping the ball too much but they opened up at some point and that gave us space to play our normal game,\u201dIbenge said.<\/p>\n
Line-ups: Wanderers\u2014 <\/strong>Chipuwa, Nyirenda, Malata, Peter Cholopi, Sambani, Manyozo, Joseph Kamwendo, Chester, Felix Zulu, Dan Kumwenda, Wadabwa.<\/p>\n Vita: <\/strong>Nelson, Manganga Omba, Djuna Shabani, Ngonda Muzinga, Bangala Litomboy, Mukoko Tuyombe, Bonpunga Botuli, Oumar Sidire, Mukoko Dukapec, Mundele Naku, Muzungu Lukambe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Be Forward Wanderers failed to salvage pride after they lost 1-2 to AS Vita of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a Caf Champions League preliminary round match played at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe Wednesday. Following the defeat, the Nomads have exited the tournament after losing 6-1 on aggregate, having lost the first-leg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61177","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\/61177","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=61177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61181,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61177\/revisions\/61181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}