{"id":80230,"date":"2019-07-09T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80230"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T09:51:08","slug":"nyasa-big-bullets-cautious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/09\/nyasa-big-bullets-cautious\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyasa Big Bullets cautious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-lanjesi-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67369 alignleft\" src=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-lanjesi-1-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-lanjesi-1-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-lanjesi-1-45x35.jpg 45w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/john-lanjesi-1.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>TNM Super League defending champions, Nyasa Big Bullets, are expected to further examine skipper John Lanjesi who was pulled out of Sunday\u2019s match against Mlatho Mponela before half time after appearing to have sustained an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Lanjesi was impressive when the People\u2019s Team returned to winning ways, beating Mlatho 3-0 at Kamuzu Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The defender was returning from a hamstring <a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/skipper-john-lanjesi-out-of-cosafa-cup-squad\/\">injury<\/a> that has seen him out of action for six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>He was replaced by Bashir Maunde six minutes before half time after appearing to have aggravated the injury.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets Team Manager, James Chilapondwa, said the substitution was a precautionary measure as they did not want to aggravate Lanjesi\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe missed his services in almost five games and did not want to take chances. We will be examining him further before deciding the next course of action,\u201d<\/em> Chilapondwa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bullets Coach, Kallisto Pasuwa, bemoaned the rate at which his players were sustaining injuries.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is such injuries that keep pushing us back and forth in our quest to win all our games,\u201d<\/em> Pasuwa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pasuwa was also referring to full-backs Gomegzani Chirwa and Precious Sambani, who have also been on the injury list of late.<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Kajoke scored a brace with Mike Mkwate scoring the third goal to help Bullets climb to fourth position on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: TNM Super League defending champions, Nyasa Big Bullets, are expected to further examine skipper John Lanjesi who was pulled out of Sunday\u2019s match against Mlatho Mponela before half time after appearing to have sustained an injury. Lanjesi was impressive when the People\u2019s Team returned to winning ways, beating Mlatho 3-0 at Kamuzu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230","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=80230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80272,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80230\/revisions\/80272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}