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Give us benefit of doubt — Nomads
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by Garry Chirwa - 17-07-2002 |
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Like blind-folded death row prisoners being led to the lethal injection chairs, troubled MTL Wanderers continue to believe in cold comfort, hoping against all odds that a silver lining will appear in the dark cloud of misery hovering above them.
The club’s ever-optimistic vice general secretary Henry Chibowa said yesterday that although the Nomads are on support system in the K25 million BP Top 8, they can make a dramatic comeback.
“We should still be given a benefit of doubt, we can turn things around in our remaining two fixtures against Red Lions [this afternoon at Zomba Community Centre Ground] and MDC United on Saturday.
“We have absolutely nothing to lose now. If we win both our games, it will have an effect on other teams as well because in the course of our winning, they will be losing,” Chibowa said in his rather complicated mathematical calculations.
However, Lions’ coach Franco Ndawa said his troops were looking forward to finishing off the Nomads.
“I don’t see them resurrrecting...I don’t see it that way. We have to work hard [today], beat them and make it to the semifinals, that’s our aim,” Ndawa said.
The Nomads will be welcoming back four of their sophisticates — defender Aaron Nyasulu, midfielder Sherry Msuku and strikers Andrew ‘Aluki’ Chikhosi and Aggrey Kanyenda — who missed last weekend’s match against Silver Strikers.
Nyasulu, Msuku and Kanyenda were serving two yellow cards while Chikhosi was kept out of this tie on disciplinary grounds.
Lions are topping Group B, dubbed the Group of Death, with nine points from four games while the Nomads are at the basement with a miserable three points from the same number of games.
In Mzuzu, Group A leaders Total Big Bullets, who have already winged to the semis, engage Moyale Barracks.
Apart from protecting their unbeaten record, the game will be of little significance to the Bullets but, on the other hand, it will be very important for the soldiers who trail Admarc Tigers by two points.
Moyale need a win in one of their two remaining fixtures to leap-frog Tigers and qualify for semis. Tigers have since finished their Group B games with nine points while apart from Bullets, Moyale still have to travel to Blantyre this weekend to meet Michiru Castles.
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