{"id":67829,"date":"2018-07-02T06:59:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67829"},"modified":"2018-07-02T06:59:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:59:57","slug":"bob-mpinganjira-looks-for-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/bob-mpinganjira-looks-for-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Mpinganjira looks for momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY YOHANE SYMON:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be Forward Wanderers Coach, Bob Mpinganjira, has said he is happy that the team has returned to winning ways after a period of bad results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to keep on winning games so as to keep up with the pace [with other teams] at the top of the [TNM Super League] log table,\u201d Mpinganj i ra said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He said this after Wanderers beat stubborn Nchalo United 2-0 at Mangochi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers have 17 points, seven points behind leaders Silver Strikers who have played two more games.<\/p>\n<p>Against Nchalo, Wanderers played with three defenders\u2014Peter Cholopi, Lucky Malata and Francis Mulimbika while Stanley Sanudi, Joseph Kamwendo, Alfred Manyozo and Yamikani Chester were entrusted with supplying balls to Esau Kanyenda and Isaac Kaliati upfront.<\/p>\n<p>The game started on a high with both teams pressing each other.<\/p>\n<p>However, a simple switch off by Nchalo defenders gifted the Nomads a goal when Kaliati pounced on Kamwendo\u2019s free kick to head home the Nomads\u2019 opener in the fourth minute.<\/p>\n<p>Despite conceding, Nchalo took the game to the Nomads, creating more scoring opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Lower Shire side\u2019s finishing was poor, with former Nomads attacker Cuthbert Sinetre being the main culprit.<\/p>\n<p>The Nomads\u2019 second goal came in the 70th minute with Peter Wadabwa\u2019s first touch after he replaced Sanudi.<\/p>\n<p>He headed home a cross from probable man-of-the-match Kaliati, who beat an offside trap to cross the ball into Nchalo\u2019s danger zone.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Kanyenda had a goal-bound shot cleared off the line in the 86th minute.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Nchalo interim Coach, MacDonald Yobe, said they lost the game due to inexperience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played well but we were unlucky not to score. We are targeting winning a minimum of two more games in the first-round so that we can start the second-round on a good note and remain in the league,\u201d Yobe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY YOHANE SYMON: Be Forward Wanderers Coach, Bob Mpinganjira, has said he is happy that the team has returned to winning ways after a period of bad results. \u201cWe hope to keep on winning games so as to keep up with the pace [with other teams] at the top of the [TNM Super League] log [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67829","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\/67829","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=67829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67833,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67829\/revisions\/67833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}