{"id":68562,"date":"2018-07-24T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T07:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68562"},"modified":"2018-07-24T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T07:03:32","slug":"big-bullets-wary-of-blue-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/big-bullets-wary-of-blue-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bullets wary of Blue Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY MABVUTO KAMBUWE: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nyasa Big Bullets Coach, Rodgers Yasini, has said they will try to safeguard their TNM Super League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/big-bullets-back-in-control\/\">top spot<\/a> as the first-round nears conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Yasini said they would target a win when they meet Blue Eagles in the last game of the first-round at Mulanje Park Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Yasini said the match offers Bullets a chance to avenge the 1-0 loss they suffered to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/blue-eagles-clinch-airtel-trophy\/\">Eagles<\/a> in Airtel Top 8 final played at Bingu National Stadium in Lilongwe recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be very careful because Eagles beat us in the Airtel Top 8 so it will be a tough game. I hope that the players will give 100 percent performance as they know the importance of the game,\u201d Yasini said.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets lead the log table with 32 points from 14 games\u2014just one point above Silver Strikers\u2014 having drawn 0-0 against the Bankers at Silver Stadium in Lilongwe on Saturday before beating Mafco 1-0 at Kasungu Ground on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mafco acting Coach, Tione Mhone, is upbeat of escaping relegation despite that his team is second from bottom with 11 points from 14 games.<\/p>\n<p>Mafco, who face Be Forward Wanderers in their last game of the first-round this weekend, claimed their second win of the season after beating Moyale Barracks 1-0 at Kasungu Stadium before losing to Bullets at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe showed great improvement in the two games we played over the weekend. Our desire is to move out of the relegation zone. I am confident that soon we will be in the safe zone,\u201d the former Zomba United coach said.<\/p>\n<p>In other games played over the weekend, third-placed Wanderers drew 0-0 against fourth-positioned Civil Sporting Club at Balaka Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Nomads have 25 points from 14 games whereas Civil have 24 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Mzuni beat TN Stars 2-0 at Mzuzu Stadium whereas Karonga United defeated Masters Security 1-0 at Karonga Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MABVUTO KAMBUWE: Nyasa Big Bullets Coach, Rodgers Yasini, has said they will try to safeguard their TNM Super League top spot as the first-round nears conclusion. Yasini said they would target a win when they meet Blue Eagles in the last game of the first-round at Mulanje Park Stadium on Saturday. Yasini said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68562","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\/68562","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=68562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68567,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68562\/revisions\/68567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}