{"id":64809,"date":"2018-05-03T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T08:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=64809"},"modified":"2018-05-03T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T08:58:47","slug":"masters-dont-go-down-zacharia-nyirenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/03\/masters-dont-go-down-zacharia-nyirenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters don\u2019t go down\u2014 Zacharia Nyirenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Masters Security Services FC General Secretary, Zacharia Nyirenda, has told critics to stop reading too much into the team\u2019s poor start to the 2018 TNM Super League season.<\/p>\n<p>Masters have lost thrice and drawn once this season, but Nyirenda said the team was just going through a bad patch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are playing entertaining football but we are just unlucky that we are failing to find the back of the net. We are not yet out and we will soon bounce back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Masters started the season with a 1-1 draw against Civil Sporting Club before losing to defending champions Be Forward Wanderers and Kamuzu Barracks by 1-0 margins.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Blue Eagles clobbered the Alfred Gangata-owned side 4-0 at Nankhaka Ground in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Former Nyasa Big Bullets and Wanderers striker, Andrew Chikhosi, said it was too early to rule out Masters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not too late for them. We cannot judge them based on just four games. I hope that they will soon get the results,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Masters recruited several players including Chimwemwe Kumkwawa, Zeliati Nkhoma, Suwedi Limbani, Rafik Mussa and Kondwani Lufeyo before the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the team suspended Coach, Abasi Makawa, due to alleged insubordination.<\/p>\n<p>Masters defied all odds when they participated in the 2018 Caf Confederation Cup but exited the competition to Angola\u2019s Petro de Luanda 5-0 on aggregate in the first-round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masters Security Services FC General Secretary, Zacharia Nyirenda, has told critics to stop reading too much into the team\u2019s poor start to the 2018 TNM Super League season. Masters have lost thrice and drawn once this season, but Nyirenda said the team was just going through a bad patch. \u201cWe are playing entertaining football but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64809","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\/64809","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=64809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64816,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64809\/revisions\/64816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}