{"id":74921,"date":"2019-02-26T10:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T08:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74921"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T08:51:03","slug":"junior-flames-lose-second-match-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/26\/junior-flames-lose-second-match-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Flames lose second match in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/meke-mwase.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-71944\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/meke-mwase-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/meke-mwase-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/meke-mwase.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Malawi Under-23 national football team lost 3-1 to Belgian side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OHLeuven\/\">Oud-Heverlee Leuven<\/a> (OHL) in a friendly played in Brussels Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second consecutive defeat for Malawi as they prepare for Zambia next month in two back-to-back 2020 Olympic Games qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The junior Flames <a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/malawi-under-23-in-stuttering-start\/\">lost<\/a> the first game to Belgian Pro- League side STVV last week by the same margin.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi Coach, Meke Mwase, made one change from the first eleven which featured against STVV.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Brighton Munthali started in place of Rabson Chiyenda, who conceded two goals in that match.<\/p>\n<p>OHL were the first to score after 27 minutes but the lead was short-lived as junior Flames Captain, Chimwemwe Idana, levelled the scores.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi started the game on a low note but grew in confidence towards the end of the first-half.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in the first game, in which they conceded two goals in the first-half, they managed a respectable score-line of 1-1 at the interval.<\/p>\n<p>But OHL restored the lead 24 minutes after resumption, before netting the third from the spot three minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>There was no reaction from the coaches as we went to press Monday but local coach Thom Mkolongo said there is no need to worry about the results.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe went there to prepare for the Zambia games. But going forward, conceding six goals in two games is a sign of defensive weaknesses. We need to improve in that aspect,\u201d<\/em> Mkolongo said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Malawi under-23 line-up: <\/strong>Brighton Munthali, Hadji Wali, Dennis Chembezi, Charles Petro, Isaac Kaliati, Idana, Mark Fodya, Levison Maganizo, Peter Banda, Chikaiko Batisoni, Hassan Kajoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mabvuto Kambuwe: Malawi Under-23 national football team lost 3-1 to Belgian side Oud-Heverlee Leuven (OHL) in a friendly played in Brussels Monday. It was the second consecutive defeat for Malawi as they prepare for Zambia next month in two back-to-back 2020 Olympic Games qualifiers. The junior Flames lost the first game to Belgian Pro- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74921","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\/74921","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=74921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74923,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74921\/revisions\/74923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}