easy win against neighbours Quelaton at Luveve yesterday.
Tendai Mukambi scored a brace, with his first goal coming in the 13th minute and the second in the 26th minute.
Kudakwashe Mahachi added the third goal four minutes into the second half.
With Monomotapa losing to Dynamos 1-2 yesterday, Chicken Inn moved to 49 points in the Castle Lager Premiership.
Fourth-placed Monomotapa are on 47 points with just two games to go before the season ends.
Second-placed Highlanders won’t play in the Champions League, even if they win the league or finish second, as they have been banned from continental club football.
Chicken Inn can’t get Bosso’s Champions League slot either, even if they finish third, because that competition is only reserved for the winners of the league and the second-placed team.
The breakthrough for Chicken Inn came when Guide Goddard sent a long ball up field.
A failed bid to clear left Mukambi with a chance and he obliged by beating the ‘keeper with a low shot.
Quelaton tried to turn the tide but had most of their efforts smothered in midfield and defence without giving goalkeeper Liberty Chirava any headaches.
A low cross from the right by Thabani Goredema was poorly dealt with by the Quelaton defence and they were duly punished for that with a simple tap in from close range by Mukambi who took his goal tally to seven this season.
There was little goalmouth action for the next 19 minutes of the first half.
Chicken Inn continued to run rings in the Quelaton half in the second stanza.
Mahachi made it 3-0 in the 49th minute with a hard and low shot to the far post from the edge of the box after benefiting from a Goredema pass released from the middle of the park.
Chicken Inn enjoyed the better of the exchanges in midfield with Sydney Linyama, their lanky anchorman, and Goredema doing well to shut out their opponents.
Quelaton are already demoted.
Chicken Inn finished with 10-men after Tendai Ndoro was shown red for a second bookable offence by referee Bryton Malandule.
Zie Sibanda, Joseph Pongolani and Proud Zireni were shown yellow cards for rough play.
Goredema was lucky not to be expelled after he slapped an opponent in retaliation after a crude tackle.
Teams
Quelaton: F Magaba, Z Sibanda, j Pongolani, E Nkulungo (M Sibanda 62nd minute), I Kutsanzira, G Muleya, M Moyo (T Mugumanya 56th minute), T Moyo, P Zireni, T January, P Tshuma (S Dube 32nd minute)
Chicken Inn: L Chirava, J Moses, B Mbiriri, M Ncube (T Ndoro 60th minute), T Chimenya (L Mpofu 60TH minute), T Mukambi, K Mahachi, G Goddard, F Chindungwe, S Linyama, T Goredema (D Phiri 71st minute)
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