NGONAMO’S EXPERIMENT BURSTS AS MALAWI LOSES TO BOTSWANA 1-0

…fisher proves his comeback.

The pre-assessment preparation for the incumbent flames care takers Eddington Ngonamo, Enerst Mtawali and Patrick Mabedi, yesterday went into the usual flames result as the Malawi national football team went down 1-0 to the Botswana zebras at the university of Botswana stadium.

In what could be called a well come back for the revived legend fisher anong’a kondowe, and the welcome for new players like chaima, the flames started the game on a promising note. The whole first half saw the flames outclassing the hosts but failed to utilize the clear scoring chances.

The ng’onamo led panel used the 4-5-1 system to ensure that they manage to defend properly to avoid conceding silly goals since they were playing away. It was fisher kondowe who gave the zebras defenders tough time with his speeding, turns and set pieces: no wonder the flames got many corner kicks in the first half. However, it was gasten simkonda   who was much wasteful failing to put the ball behind the net.

It was in the second half when the caretakers decided to parade in bench members that the experiment started to sour. The first substitution seemed promising because it was gabadihno ‘wonderkind’ mhango who was replacing simkonda as alone striker. However, the Malawi star failed to bring home ‘ siife koma gabadihno song’ as he too was not all that poisonous to break the Botswana defence which was much alert in the second half.

 When the flames decided to give the debut cap to more  up and coming super league players, the whole system changed. The pace of the game suddenly went off with the flames chasing the ball most of the time. No wonder the zebras scored their silly goal and the only goal of the game against the flames’ 10 men since james sangala was shown a marching order.

 In an interview with galaxy radio, the flames acting captain moses chavula bemoaned the unnecessary substitutions of the second half  which he said spoiled the momentum of the game. He however said that the players have all making to beat Namibia since it’s a different game altogether.

The friendly against the zebras was organized to give the flames technical panel a starting point. On one hand the loss may demolish the morale of the players who were hoping to rediscover their winning formula. On the other hand it is a wake-up call for the panel to correct where they had goofed. 

Malawi plays Namibia on 24 April in the 2014 world cup qualifiers, and is currently on third position with two points after having draws against Kenya and Nigeria last year. The game is the first competitive match for the current technical panel which was deployed after  kinna phiri was fired.

what do you think about the game against namibia?