{"id":80522,"date":"2019-07-15T03:36:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80522"},"modified":"2019-07-15T03:37:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T01:37:31","slug":"big-bullets-silver-strikers-lose-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/15\/big-bullets-silver-strikers-lose-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bullets, Silver Strikers lose ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mabvuto Kambuwe:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

TNM Super League defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets returned from the Central Region with just one point out of a possible six over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Bullets wrapped up their tour Sunday by sharing spoils with Masters Security in a barren draw at Dedza Stadium just 24 hours after losing 1-0 to Kamuzu Barracks (KB) at Civo Stadium.<\/p>\n

It was another disappointing performance for Bullets and their successful title defence is surely under threat.<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Team has now gone down to position five on the log table with 19 points, seven behind leaders, KB, after playing 11 games.<\/p>\n

In Sunday\u2019s game, Bullets Coach Kallisto Pasuwa made some changes to the side that lost to KB.<\/p>\n

Bright Munthali, Luke Chima, Henry Kabichi and Enerst Petro were in the starting line-up as Mike Mkwate, Peter Banda, Chiukepo Msowoya and Chimwemwe Idana were relegated to the bench.<\/p>\n

But Bullets could only manage a point against Masters who lost two consecutive games including a 6-1 thrashing at the hands of Be forward Wanderers last week.<\/p>\n

Unlike on Saturday, Bullets provided a real threat to Masters but goalkeeper Chimwemwe Kumkwawa was on top of his game to deny them with fine saves that earned him the Man-of-the-Match accolade.<\/p>\n

Masters managed to find the back of the net in the second half through Juma Yatina but the goal was ruled out for offside for the match to end goalless.<\/p>\n

Masters Coach Abasi Makawa said his charges displayed a much improved performance after two consecutive defeats.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told my players to forget our problems and play football. The result is not what we wanted but a point is better than none,\u201d<\/em> Makawa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bullets Coach Calisto Pasuwa admitted that pressure is mounting on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is worrisome to get just one point from two games. But we played better than yesterday. Pressure is always there as a coach when results are not good but we will get out of this very soon,\u201d<\/em> Pasuwa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In another high profile game played Sunday, Blue Eagles claimed a 2-1 victory over Silver Strikers to hand the Central Bankers their second defeat of the season.<\/p>\n

Foster Biton hammered a brace to secure maximum points for Eagles whereas Michael Tetteh netted for Silver.<\/p>\n

The win took the cops to position four with 20 points from 11 games whereas Silver are sixth with 18 points from 10 games.<\/p>\n

In Blantyre,TN Stars recovered to claim a 1-0 victory over Ntopwa at Kamuzu Stadium just 24 hours after losing 4-1 to Wanderers.<\/p>\n

Civil Sporting Club returned from the Northern Region with four points after a goal-less draw against Moyale at Mzuzu Stadium.<\/p>\n

Civil had defeated Mzuni 2-1 at the same venue on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mabvuto Kambuwe: TNM Super League defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets returned from the Central Region with just one point out of a possible six over the weekend. Bullets wrapped up their tour Sunday by sharing spoils with Masters Security in a barren draw at Dedza Stadium just 24 hours after losing 1-0 to Kamuzu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80522","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\/80522","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=80522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80526,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80522\/revisions\/80526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}