{"id":71783,"date":"2018-11-17T23:51:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T21:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=71783"},"modified":"2018-11-17T23:51:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T21:51:21","slug":"malawi-under-23-roast-zebras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/11\/17\/malawi-under-23-roast-zebras\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Under-23 roast Zebras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Mabvuto Kambuwe: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malawi Under-23 national football team came from behind to beat hosts Botswana\u2019s Young Zebras 2-1 in the first leg of a 2020 Olympic Games qualifier at Lobatse Sports Complex in Gaborone yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The win is a big relief for the local football fraternity after the senior team lost 2-1 to Comoros Islands in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Nachipo scored the winner in stoppage time to give the junior Flames a massive advantage heading into the Tuesday\u2019s second leg at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts grabbed the lead after 21 minutes in the second-half through Mothusi Cooper but substitute Hassan Kajoke, who came in for Mike Mkwate, netted the equaliser before Nachipo scored for Malawi to claim a famous victory at the facility which was officially opened by late Bingu wa Mutharika on his tour of duty to Botswana during his eight-year presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Under-23 coach Meke Mwase praised his charges for a hard fought victory which gives Malawi an advantage to progress to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wonderful performance from the players and we are really happy with the victory. But we need to keep the momentum so that we qualify for the next round,\u201d Mwase said.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi will host Botswana in the second leg at Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>The overall winner between the two teams will face Zambia in the second round of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Malawi Under-23 national football team came from behind to beat hosts Botswana\u2019s Young Zebras 2-1 in the first leg of a 2020 Olympic Games qualifier at Lobatse Sports Complex in Gaborone yesterday. The win is a big relief for the local football fraternity after the senior team lost 2-1 to Comoros Islands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71783","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\/71783","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=71783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71788,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71783\/revisions\/71788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}