Chinyama opens FC account

Munyaradzi Doma in ZVISHAVANE
FC Platinum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) 3
Bulawayo City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(1) 1

VETERAN forward Takesure Chinyama opened his goal account for FC Platinum yesterday as the Zvishavane miners showed great character to come from behind and win this Castle Lager Premiership contest at Mandava.

The former Dynamos star, who chose Zvishavane as his home after his latest return from Poland, finally started repaying his new club with a goal yesterday.

The visitors had taken the lead in the 20th minute through Newman Sianchali but defender Munyaradzi Mungadze gifted the hosts an equaliser before scoring an own goal.

Winston Mhango thrust Norman Mapeza’s men into the lead in the 44th minute before Takesure Chinyama sealed victory for the miners in the 58th minute.

Mkhokheli Dube, who joined the miners from Bulawayo City in a swap deal with Ishmael Wadi, said he was not under any pressure in the match.

“This is my former team but right now I’m playing for FC Platinum and we have one objective, to win games, so I was only focused at playing well for FC Platinum and winning this game for the team.

“Now we are happy we won this game as we were looking forward to this game,” said Dube. The veteran forward has been praised by Mapeza in many post-match interviews saying his coming on board has “brought stability to the team.”

Wadi said although his new team lost, he was happy they gave as much as they got in the contest. “Actually I can’t complain, it was a great feeling, great game,’’ he said.

“Of course, we had our chances and they also had theirs but they utilised them but we didn’t utilise ours. “I was not under any pressure playing against them, it was just a normal game.

“The coach told me to just go and play my normal game, so it was fine.’’