{"id":77709,"date":"2019-05-08T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=77709"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:15:38","slug":"civil-yearn-for-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/08\/civil-yearn-for-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil yearn for trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Williams Gondwa: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Civil Sporting Club have vowed to lift the Airtel Top 8 and end their cup-drought which dates back to 2015 when they last lifted the defunct Standard Bank Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/civil-sporting-club-hope-to-extend-lead\/\">Civil<\/a> forced a goalless draw against Mzuni at Mzuzu last Sunday and host the students in the second leg at Civo Stadium in Lilongwe on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lilongwe-based team\u2019s team manager, Gabriel Chirwa, said they had assembled a balanced squad with youthful and experienced players.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe failed to score in Mzuzu and we are working on scoring. We will be playing at home and we need goals. It has been a long time since we won silverware and we hope that this is the right time to win the Airtel Top 8,\u201d<\/em> Chirwa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Civil have started the season strongly in the TNM Super League after winning three straight games to occupy second position with nine points.<\/p>\n<p>Karonga United were the first team to, this season, reach the Airtel Top 8 semi-final, following a goalless draw against TN Stars on Saturday at Karonga Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>In the first leg, Karonga drew 1-1 against Stars at Kasungu Stadium last week.<\/p>\n<p>Another return match will involve hosts Silver Strikers and Be Forward Wanderers on May 14 at Silver Stadium in Lilongwe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Williams Gondwa: Civil Sporting Club have vowed to lift the Airtel Top 8 and end their cup-drought which dates back to 2015 when they last lifted the defunct Standard Bank Cup. Civil forced a goalless draw against Mzuni at Mzuzu last Sunday and host the students in the second leg at Civo Stadium in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77709","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\/77709","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=77709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77714,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77709\/revisions\/77714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}