{"id":77380,"date":"2019-04-29T10:49:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T08:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=77380"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T08:49:45","slug":"tigers-frustrate-bullets-as-civil-consolidate-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/04\/29\/tigers-frustrate-bullets-as-civil-consolidate-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers frustrate Bullets as Civil consolidate lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>TNM Super League defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets endured a frustrating afternoon as they came from behind to force a 1-1 draw against stubborn Mighty Tigers at Kamuzu Stadium Sunday.<\/p>\n

Bullets were generally expected to showcase how they dismantled TN Stars 4-0 during the opening week of the league but it was not to be.<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Team found the going tough and it had to take defender Sankhani Mkandawire\u2019s header to cancel out Tony Mbulu\u2019s opener as Tigers threatened to snatch maximum points.<\/p>\n

Following the draw, Bullets have moved from ninth position to fifth with four points from two games whereas Tigers are third with five points from three assignments.<\/p>\n

Civil Sporting Club top the table with nine points from three games whereas Blue Eagles remain second after a barren draw against debutants Mlatho Mponela.<\/p>\n

At Kamuzu Stadium, Tigers were solid and organised as they denied Bullets midfielders room to boss possession.<\/p>\n

But Bullets were not completely shut out as they threatened to score on several occasions in the first-half, such that Tigers defender Ganizani Anthony had to come to the rescue of his team with a goal-line clearance to deny Yamikani Fodya in the 35th minute.<\/p>\n

In the second-half, both teams came with some positivity but it was Tigers who scored through Mbulu\u2019s rebound after Bullets goalkeeper Rabson Chiyenda fumbled Chasimbiwe Kanyika\u2019s shot towards the scorer.<\/p>\n

But salvation for Bullets came in the 75th minute through Mkandawire, who headed in after Tigers goalkeeper Christopher Mikuwa misjudged Fodya\u2019s corner kick.<\/p>\n

The game was then reduced to a balanced affair and, in added time, Tigers Captain Willie Saenda was red-carded for a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n

Bullets Coach, Kallisto Pasuwa, said it was a frustrating day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a difficult match but we worked hard to get a point which can help us in our quest to retain the title,\u201d<\/em> Pasuwa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tigers Technical Director, Robin Alufandika, said it was sad that his charges gave away two points.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a game we could have won. The boys were fantastic but they lost the plot in the second-half to give away that goal,\u201d<\/em> Alufandika said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mphatso Malidadi: TNM Super League defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets endured a frustrating afternoon as they came from behind to force a 1-1 draw against stubborn Mighty Tigers at Kamuzu Stadium Sunday. Bullets were generally expected to showcase how they dismantled TN Stars 4-0 during the opening week of the league but it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77380","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\/77380","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=77380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77385,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77380\/revisions\/77385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}