adminhonours in this year’s Independence Trophy third place playoff at White City yesterday.
Dynamos chief striker Takesure Chinyama, who cancelled out Gerald Ndlovu’s 76th minute penalty with a thunderbolt of a freekick, turned villain when his effort in the lottery was saved by Timothy Sibanda to put the Glamour Boys in a deficit position after the returning David Kutyauripo had tucked in the first penalty.
Hwange’s Malvern Longwe, Ndlovu, Tongai Mamina and Kamunhenga all scored for Hwange.
DeMbare leftback Ocean Mushure scored the third penalty after Chinyama’s miss but it was all for nothing as defender Partson Jaure then hit the woodwork and thereafter Kamunhenga scored to hand the win to Hwange.
The lacklustre match picked up tempo in the second half with action swinging from end to end with both teams looking for the opener.
The breakthrough came from Farai Vimisyai who made a darting run into the Dynamos half and was clumsily hacked down by Kutyauripo leaving referee Brighton Malandule with no option but to point to the spot.
Defender Ndlovu stepped up to send Washington Arubi the wrong way in the 76th minute.
Dynamos responded immediately and brought on Martin Vengesai and Denver Mukamba for Murape Murape and Devon Chafa in the 77th minute.
Hwange also brought on Kamunhenga for Vimisai.
Vengesai immediately got into the thick of things as he tormented the Hwange defence and after dribbling through towards goal Chipangano left back Munyaradzi Mungadze fouled him.
From the resultant freekick Chinyama then scored with a stinger much to the delight of the DeMbare fans.
But the former Hwange man was not so precise from the penalty spot.
Speaking after the match Hwange manager Tennant Chilumba expressed satisfaction with his charges’ performance.
“It has been two out of two wins so far this season against Dynamos and it is delighting and confidence boosting as we are gunning for the league this season,” Chilumba said.
His Dynamos counterpart Callisto Pasuwa said losing was part of the game but two losses on the trot was bad for confidence for future matches.
“This is our second loss on the trot and the second against Hwange and it is not good.”
“We have to work on the team to rebuild their confidence,” said Pasuwa.
Dynamos were also coming from a 10 loss to Monomotapa in the league.
Teams:
Hwange: T Sibanda, E Chipeta, G Ndlovu, A Katebe, M Mungadzi, W Mhango, F Vimisai (D Kamunhenga 77th minute), R Chinyengetere, M Longwe, T Mamina, F Zvikumbawire
Dynamos: W Arubi, D Kutyauripo, G Magariro, M Makopa, O Mushure, P Jaure, M Murape (M Vengesai 77th minute), T Chinyama, T Muparati, D Chafa (D Mukamba 77th minute), T Mabvura
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