{"id":69717,"date":"2018-09-27T07:46:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=69717"},"modified":"2018-09-27T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T05:46:22","slug":"rivalry-battle-rekindled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/09\/27\/rivalry-battle-rekindled\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivalry battle rekindled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/albert-mpinganjira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-66947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/albert-mpinganjira-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/albert-mpinganjira-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/albert-mpinganjira-45x35.jpg 45w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/albert-mpinganjira.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Rivalry and tension that grips sworn-rivals Be Forward Wanderers and Nyasa Big Bullets is expected to come to the fore today when their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/reserves-derby-grosses-k1-2-million\/\">reserve sides<\/a> battle it out.<\/p>\n<p>The Fisd Challenge Cup quarter-final match for the Southern Region will take place at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>The reserve sides drew 1-1 in their last meeting for Chitetezo Mbaula Premier Division at BAT Ground in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/nyasa-big-bullets-reserves-on-fire\/\">Bullets Reserve<\/a> Coach, Enos Chatama, was philosophical ahead of the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThey [our opponents] are experienced, having been in the Premier Division for some years and we just got promoted [from Division One] this season. Our mission is to take each game as it comes,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Midfielder Chimwemwe Idana remains Bullets Reserve\u2019s hub of dominance owing to his ability to control the game.<\/p>\n<p>The central midfielder, who has earned some Flames call-ups, is calm and dictates the tempo of a game. Alex Tsamba is also one to watch for Bullets.<\/p>\n<p>Wanderers Reserve Coach, Albert Mpinganjira, said they expect the match to have all ingredients of a Blantyre derby.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cMake no mistake about it; this rivalry extends to our teams. I hope people will watch one of the best games. Our goal is to get to the next round,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mpinganjira has good players such as Wilton Kaunda Junior and attacker Wisdom Mpinganjira.<\/p>\n<p>A seat in the open stands will cost K1,000, K2,000 for MBC Stand whereas the Covered and VIP seats are pegged at K3,000 and K5,000, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Rivalry and tension that grips sworn-rivals Be Forward Wanderers and Nyasa Big Bullets is expected to come to the fore today when their reserve sides battle it out. The Fisd Challenge Cup quarter-final match for the Southern Region will take place at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre. The reserve sides drew 1-1 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69717","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\/69717","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=69717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69723,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717\/revisions\/69723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}