{"id":67168,"date":"2018-06-20T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T06:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67168"},"modified":"2018-06-20T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T06:07:37","slug":"tigers-hungry-for-top-4-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/20\/tigers-hungry-for-top-4-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers hungry for top-4 finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling Azam Tigers have said they are fighting for a top-four finish in the TNM Super League first-round.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers Coach, Richard Fosko, reacting to Sunday\u2019s 1-0 loss to hosts Silver Strikers in Lilongwe on Sunday, said he believes that his team can bounce back to form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lost most of our away games not because we are a bad side but due to poor officiation. In Sunday\u2019s game, the referee denied us clear penalties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, there is time for us to bounce back. But we are no longer in title contention. The best we can do is finish among top-four teams so that we can build on this in the second-round,\u201d Fosko said.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers, who once topped the log table after playing most games at home, have dropped to position seven with 13 points from 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets did not play over the weekend, thereby allowing Silver to move closer, with 19 points, two points behind the People\u2019s Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling Azam Tigers have said they are fighting for a top-four finish in the TNM Super League first-round. Tigers Coach, Richard Fosko, reacting to Sunday\u2019s 1-0 loss to hosts Silver Strikers in Lilongwe on Sunday, said he believes that his team can bounce back to form. \u201cWe have lost most of our away games not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67168","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\/67168","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=67168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67170,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67168\/revisions\/67170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}