Nyasa Big Bullets are within touching distance of the TNM Super League title after a hard fought 1-0 victory over Blue Eagles at Nankhaka Stadium in Lilongwe yesterday.<\/p>\n
The result means Bullets are just a few games away from winning their 14th title since the inception of the league in 1986.<\/p>\n
Nelson Kangunje netted the priceless goal in the dying minutes to secure maximum points for Bullets.<\/p>\n
It was a goal which originated from Fischer Kondowe\u2019s cross. Kangunje was left unmarked in the box and, with a free header, beat Eagles goalkeeper John Soko.<\/p>\n
Bullets have extended the lead at the summit of the log table to six points with their tally of 58 points. They have six games to wind up the season.<\/p>\n
Bullets dominated the game but wasted some glorious chances through Chiukepo Msowoya, Kangunje and Patrick Phiri.<\/p>\n
Eagles also had some chances that Maxwell Salambula and Beston Jimu failed to convert. The policemen are on position six with 34 points from 27 games.<\/p>\n
In the other played in Blantyre, Be Forward Wanderers and Silver Strikers shared the spoils in a 1-1 draw at Kamuzu Stadium as Zicco Nkanda scored for the Nomads, with Michael Tetteh netting the equaliser.<\/p>\n
Silver are still second with 52 points having played 27 games whereas Wanderers are third with 46 points from 23 games, 12 points behind Bullets.<\/p>\n
Eagles Coach DeKlerk Msakakuona accepted defeat: \u201cWe made a mistake and Bullets utilised their chances. We also had some chances but it was not our day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bullets Coach Calisto Pasuwa said: \u201cI did not expect that the game would be this difficult. I think it is a very competitive league nowadays than it was before because some teams are also strong. We will take every game seriously and we have to very careful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Line-ups: <\/strong><\/p>\n Eagles-<\/strong>Soko, Zakumbuyo, Chagoma, Jelemani, Kumilonde, Nachipo, Chigawa, Mhone, Chilasa, Salambula, Jimu.<\/p>\n Bullets-<\/strong>Kakhobwe, Zonda, Lanjesi, Maunde, Fodya, Kaira, Kabichi, Mgwira, Kangunje, Phiri, Msowoya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nyasa Big Bullets are within touching distance of the TNM Super League title after a hard fought 1-0 victory over Blue Eagles at Nankhaka Stadium in Lilongwe yesterday. The result means Bullets are just a few games away from winning their 14th title since the inception of the league in 1986. Nelson Kangunje netted the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70907","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\/70907","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=70907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70911,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70907\/revisions\/70911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}