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The former Njube Sundowns player, David Kutyauripo, scrambled a header off an Ocean Mushure corner kick, five minutes after the breather to send the predominantly DeMbare crowd into a frenzy as they suddenly realised that victory was possible as their hosts had shut them out the entire first half, serve for a few individual moments of brilliance from Orlando Pirates-bound Takesure Chinyama.
“Surely how do we concede such a silly goal. We continue conceding silly goals and it’s clear that the boys are immature,” said a clearly disappointed Quelaton coach Philani “Beefy” Ncube.
If DeMbare came to Bulawayo thinking they were going to overrun their hosts, then the boys in green had other ideas and even though they showed a little respect for their visitors, Quelaton quickly realised that the 2011 Castle Lager Premiership champions are not invincible and took the game to them, with their defence led by captain Zibusiso Sibanda solid, the midfield of Mpumelelo Moyo,
Wilberfoce Chiramba and Innocent Kutsanzira was very mobile although their biggest undoing, like in previous games, was the final pass when in front of the goal.
Credit should be given to the more experienced Dynamos players as they did not allow the Quelaton surge to disrupt them from what coach Callisto Pasuwa might have told them and kept virgil of any raids which kept on coming for the first quarter of an hour.
The Harare giants then tried to execute their own raids and how fiery it was. Inside a minute the Glamour boys forced two corner kicks, the second ending with a pile drive off the left foot of Tichaona Mabvura in the 16th minute that however, went over the bar.
From then on, the match was a seesaw affair, each side giving as much as it was getting with Dynamos getting more into their opponents’ defensive third as a result of a consistent loss of balls by Kutsanzira who had a rather below par performance despite starting well. His passes were always hospital ones.
In the 33rd minute Dynamos were forced to make another unplanned change when Zambian Aurthur Kaseloki was pulled off injured for Tawanda Muparati who later proved to be a handful for Quelaton.
Two minutes into the thick of things, Muparati unleashed a bullet from the right side that however, found an alert Winston Chiwetu who acrobatically tipped it over the bar for a corner, which was wasted though. A minute later the DeMbare army was asking questions again, this time Chinyama’s diving header from a Kutyauripo cross went wide.
Quelaton still remained unintimidated, displaying some nice one-two passes which at times reduced their opponents to an ordinary outfit but still, those moves did not result in goals.
Teams:
Quelaton: W Chiwetu, W Chiramba, S Dube, Z Sibanda, E Nkhulungo (M Sibanda 61st), I Kutsanzira, G Mleya, M Moyo (T Magumanya 76th), F Nkomazana, P Zireni, P Ncube
Dynamos: W Arubi, D Kutyauripo, G Magariro, T Magorimbo (T Mamvura 57th), M Makopa, R Mutuma, G Zhokinyi, T Mabvura, A Kaseloki (T Muparati 33rd), O Mushure, T Chinyama (D Kabwe 67th)
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