Two first half goals from Mike Robert and Green Harawa helped 10-member Silver Strikers get a flying -start to the TNM Super League second round as they beat Mzuni 2-0 at Mzuzu Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Silver assistant coach, Lovemore Fazili, was happy with what he saw in the Bankers, who struck first through defender Robert inside the opening 17 minutes with a simple finish.<\/p>\n
Mzuni were not demoralised as they tried to re-organise themselves. Ten minutes later, Mzuni won a free-kick through Victor Gondwe, but it went over the bar.<\/p>\n
Against the run of play, Harawa struck for Silver to make it 2-0 on the 42nd minute.<\/p>\n
Sensing danger, Mzuni who finished 13th in the first round, made several substitutions; bringing in left-back Hardson Milanzi, formerly of Mponera United, Victor Gondwe and striker Pilirani Mdhuli for Davie Moyo, but the changes paid no dividends.<\/p>\n
Silver, hunting for more goals, had to bring in striker Rodrick Gonani for defender Lameck Kachimanga and Peter Wadabwa for Tizgowele Kumwenda. However, the visitors were dealt a big blow as referee Misheck Juba red-carded midfielder Sam Gunda for a second bookable offence.<\/p>\n
Silver defended their lead to frustrate Mzuni, whose coach Alex Ngwira said his charges played well and were just unfortunate to lose.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very happy to collect three points which has taken our tally to 23 points. It\u2019s a morale-booster to our game against Moyale on Monday [yesterday],\u201d Fazili told the press.<\/p>\n
Silver line-up: <\/strong>Blessings Kameza,Mike Robert, Lucky Malata ,Lameck Kachimanga,Wonderful Jeremani, Blessings Tembo, Lazarous Nyemera, Sam Gunda, Victor Limbani, Green Harawa,Peter Wadabwa.<\/p>\n Mzuni line-up: <\/strong>Labson Chiyenda,Victor Gondwe, Lughano Kaira,Kondwani Ngoma, Bob Longwe,Mabuchi Nkosi, Brave Phiri, Davie Moyo, Thoko Mbandambanda, Vincent Chinthenga, Lughindiko Mushani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two first half goals from Mike Robert and Green Harawa helped 10-member Silver Strikers get a flying -start to the TNM Super League second round as they beat Mzuni 2-0 at Mzuzu Stadium on Sunday. Silver assistant coach, Lovemore Fazili, was happy with what he saw in the Bankers, who struck first through defender Robert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8725","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\/8725","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=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8740,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions\/8740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}