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HWANGE chose to start the Castle Lager Premier league season in ruthless fashion as they put up a stunning performance to clobber visiting Buffaloes in a cracking match at the Colliery yesterday. The sweet victory by the hosts was spiced up by a memorable midfield performance by returning Rodwell Chinyengetere, who missed action from May 2012 when he was injured in a league match against Monomotapa in Harare.
The roving midfielder took the drum beating home fans down memory lane to the glory days with a brace in the 42th and 61st minutes.
It was also a match which highlighted the indiscipline in the army side’s camp early in the season as they finished the match with nine men after goal scorer Kelvin Tembani was shown a straight red card by lanky referee Hardley Ndazi in the 64th minute for a savage lunge at national team defender Eric Chipeta while Shepherd Nkheta was given a second yellow on stroke of full time for dissent.
It was a sorry sight as Chipeta had to be stretched off after that nasty challenge and had to be replaced by young Collen Muleya.
Hwange meant business from the onset as they raced into the lead just after three minutes of play from the boot of striker Evans Rusike who pounced on a loose ball to fire home from just outside the box.
His shot hit the underside of the crossbar, bounced down once before rolling back into play drawing some muted protests from some Buffaloes players.
This was after Chinyengetere’s flashing header, off a curling Chipeta corner kick had crashed off the left upright and bounced back into play.
Buffaloes refused to be intimidated as they immediately responded with some lethal attacks revolving around Jeffrey Takunda who almost grabbed an equaliser in the sixth minute only to watch in despair as Hwange veteran goal minder Timothy Sibanda acrobatically went airborne to tip his sizzling volley for a corner with coach Luke Masomere and the entire technical bench already celebrating.
Online Reporter